Knockdene garden in 2021

 Sunrise          04:57               Sunset               21:43 A wet start to today after a couple of lovely days in the garden. Things are going well now, with growth in all areas of the garden. Weeds are doing particularly well. The working parts of an Amaryllis flower Blue Poppy Wild flowers are starting to show First showing of an early Purple Orchid

 Sunrise               05:06                        Sunset                    21:32 Thank goodness the rain has stopped, yesterday was a total washout from 0800 onwards, I think it had stopped by bedtime. Did some transplanting and watering. Went out to try and find Blood Fish and Bone. None to be had anywhere. Maroon Aqueligea Lithodora "Heavenly Blue" Meconopsis 

Sunrise          05:19               Sunset               21:19 Another lovely start to today. Not a lot done in the garden over the last couple of days, busy doing other things. Keeping everything watered and potting up the odd seedling. This is the 3rd blossom on this single stem of Amaryllis "Dancing Queen"

Sunrise           05:25               Sunset               21:13 Another dry start to a showery day forecast. The last few days has seen lots of work done on the path around the pond and the bed infested with the allium triquetrum. This is hard going because it has not been attempted for some years. The white Lilac has come into bloom. The old Bramley apple trees have come into real bloom for the first time since their major pruning a few years ago.

Sunrise               05:27               Sunset               21:12 Today was a strange day in the garden, some things have com into bloom. I spent most of 3 hours trying to work on the contaminated bed in the back garden. The wild garlic is hard to get out of the ground. The Blue Poppy is flowering for the first time in the garden.

Sunrise          05:35               Sunset          21:04 The weather outside is still cold, 6deg at 0900. The s un is s hining bright. Things are starting to grow in the garden as the daffodils are going over.

Sunrise                05:37          Sunset               21:02 More rain overnight, but the forecast is better. The sun is poking through the clouds, a little wind and still cold, 7Deg this morning. The Butternut Squash seeds on the window sill are starting to progress at last. The grapes are doing very well so far this year, a few pictures and also the stream with my repairs seems to be going well. The flowing stream Bunches of grapes More grapes Unknown round things, eggs? Between the showers today we kept on working at the garden. I worked at the pond and rerouted the power supply to the pump. We brought the metal support for the seedlings table back to the area outside the potting shed and moved a lot of small pots onto it.

Sunrise               05:39               Sunset               21:00 A wet and breezy start to the day. The garden is getting a well deserved drink this morning. The Prunus "Kanzan" in Rosemary's garden has started it's annual shedding of Pink petals all over the gardens. I think another day in the potting shed planting on seedlings. The blossom on the Amaryllis only gets better, two flowers on this stalk and another one coming. today We had a very wet day today, it rained from first light through to about 15:00. Then it was too wet on the garden to do much. I went into the potting shed and transplanted a few more seedlings. Transplanted seedlings of Sweet Pepper and Parsley.

Sunrise          05:41               Sunset               20:59 The weather is still cold. I finished repairing the stream connected to the pond. I used a reinforced butyl product called "Roof". It is supposed to give 20 years protection and be completely waterproof. It has done a good job and at first running of the pump, no water seemed to be lost. I hope a success, time will tell. Gary came today with Niamh and Ruraidh with a present for Alison, a delayed birthday gift. It is a lovely planted pot of flowers with Ivy, Busy Lizzies and Cineraria. I did a lot of transplanting seedlings today. Chilies, Sweet peppers and  Blue Poppy   (Meconopsis). These were seedlings got from Fergus during the winter. The forecast is for rain tomorrow, it is overdue. The temperature is still cold for the time of year.

Sunrise               05:43           Sunset               20:57 Another good day, still very cold, the weather people say that April was the coldest  April since records began. I did a little work around the pond today and the wild garlic area.  Alison planted some White Foxgloves from a seed tray into individual pots. We took some more Dianthus cuttings from an over grown plant from last year. These cuttings will give a good display later in the year. White Foxgloves Dianthus cuttings along with a few other plants. No gardening this afternoon, family taxi service to take Jay to the caravan.