Not everything in the garden is rosy
21.08.2023 - 12:03
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/ Emma Doughty
Yesterday I noticed that one of my Calycanthus floridus is in flower. I have two, currently both in pots, and it’s rare for me to be able to find both of them at the same time. They are refugees from the old garden; they were too young to flower there. They were planted in my parents’ garden in Malvern for a year or so – whether they flowered there, I don’t know. I suspect not, as they were given a rather shady spot. After we moved here I reclaimed them and planted them back into pots. So they haven’t had the best start in life, and I’m happy to see that at least one of them seems to be thriving regardless.
The good news is that they will soon have a permanent home. They are destined to be part of the front garden, and yesterday morning I finished rough digging it over. Ryan will move in now, and give it a thorough tilling with the rotovator, and then I will be able to start planting it up.
As I said at the beginning of the month, I am thrilled to be a gardener again, and I’m loving watching my plants develop, and having pottering jobs to do in the garden. However, although the current media trend is to make out that gardening is ‘easy’ and gardens are rose-tinted places where nothing bad happens beyond torrential rain and the annual slug apocalypse, the truth is that not everything goes according to plan – and that’s normal.
I have been a bad Plant Mummy. The silvered leaves on my Tutti Frutti tomatoes mean that I didn’t devote enough time and attention to hardening them off. They have suffered from being thrust outside too soon in the weather. It could have been the Sun, the cold or the scorching winds – we’ve had enough of all three to do tender plants damage. There’s no cure in the sense that those damaged leaves can’t
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