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At the end of the year we were busy in the gardens doing lots of tidying up and weeding. This included weeding and mulching around the base some of the fruit trees. The grass was still growing and had to be cut with the push mower. Shrubs and plants that had flowered were cut back. This included the catmint in the Hollygon which was coming through the railings and overhanging the pavement and the clematis montana. Ivy was carefully removed from the walls and cut from around the tall trees, leaving a section at the trunk base for wildlife. In early November leaves were cleared for Light up Lancaster in the Copper Beech Garden. Leaf clearing from this and from The Tasting Garden continued into December. A self-seeded Hawthorn was dug out from the southwest corner of The Tasting Garden because it was too close to the walls and the ground there needed to be lowered for safely as it was only about six inches below the Meeting House Lane wall. In addition to tidying up, some planting out has been achieved. The grass area in The Tasting Garden set aside for cornfield annuals was dug over and seeds planted in one section. Seedlings, verbena bonariensis, cyclamen coum and campanula lactiflora, tulip bulbs and plants, cowslips, rudbeckia and violas, have been planted. The Autumn crocus (Naked ladies) were struggling to grow under the copper beech tree so they were dug up and replanted in a wildflower area in The Tasting Garden. In November the Lancaster City Council Grounds Maintenance team came to trim and shape the yew hedge in The Tasting Garden and the privet hedge in the Copper Beech garden. Wildlife sightings and a list of some of the plants in flower during November and December are reported in a separate post on the Nature blog, click here for the details. Below is a photo gallery of some of the work. Click on an image to enlarge.
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