Living and Gardening in Brittany

Heavy frost, Australian open and cats have taken up all my time. So no gardening for days. Before this I began to try to dig up the japonica. I made some progress and determined  to spend sometime every day on this as it is really a very big job. I should never have allowed it to get this big  and it was planted in the wrong place. I made a quick visit to the green house today. I think the pots of tulips and other plants are a little dry. I must find time to water them. Japonica in flower but now it is big and stragley

Today is another frosty day but I am continuing to  weed, add manure and add straw to all the flower beds.

I have weeded and spread manure mixed with wood ash on all the beds in the slate garden. It is  planted with perennials and now I have to  spread straw. I began to weed the beds round the front lawn. There are a lot of weeds because I think in other years I have left it too late to weed. I have made an internal list in my head of daily jobs as well as the weeding and spreading manure. The list:   slate                 seed for birds                 straw                soil from mole hills