It’s been a busy week here with the shed base frame work being completed on Monday. It was too cold to lay a concrete base for the greenhouse so the project continues into next week. We had snow that didn’t linger on Tuesday. On Wednesday the new shed arrived and the move back in began. But many things were too wet and that continues to be the case. Today Storm Bert arrives and I was out making safe the greenhouse contents and moving the pots in sheltered positions. Here’s a sad looking six from the garden this week.
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Let’s start with the new shed with four windows which do give a little more light. The skip came in very handy and plenty of stuff was got rid off. I held on to most of my collection of bricks and old roof tiles, pleading that they always came in handy.
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And today they were put to good use, weighing down the builder’s bags that hold the collection of plastic pots, netting and seed trays that came out of the greenhouse.
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The water butts have all been emptied of their contents now and are huddled together in a corner. I’d hate to see these rolling across the garden.
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I still haven’t had time to take the scented leaf pelargoniums inside so they have been huddled together against the winds. Next week is mild so they will good for another week outside.
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The pellies are still pushing out the odd flower here and there.
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And still looking quite green, these ferns are in the shelter of the larger rhododendron. Dryopteris filix-mas possibly. I inherited them so I’m really not sure.
I have abject apologies to send to our lovely group of SOS bloggers I have not been able to do much reading over the last two weeks. I’m hoping life settles down a little and I will be able to get up to speed again. Jim hosts the SOS group so drop in and have a good ready anytime. In the meantime I wish you all a safe weekend from any storm and happy gardening if you can get out there!
n20gardener 
At least you’ve made some progress with the new shed etc, despite the weather. I’d call that a successful week!
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It was a relief to get some things back into the shed.
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ice to see color in your garden! My dark purple pansies were beheaded by a hungry small mammal (bunny?) last week. I went to see if they were still thriving and found neatly cur stems. Ahh well. This time of year it is every mammal for itself.
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Thank goodness there are no rabbits here. But I have seen mice.
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Is that Pelargonium graveolens? If so, is it a cultivar, such as ‘Citronella’? I tried growing it (the species, whether or not it is a cultivar) from cuttings, but it never rooted. I thought that was quite odd for a Pelargonium. Then, it grew from seed where I dumped its debris! Well, if it was a cultivar, it is not now, although I am pleased with it. Since it first appeared, a few others have appeared in other places.
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It’s a mix of three types Prince of Orange, Attar of Roses and Capitatum. As you say so easy (usually) to propagate from cuttings
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Oh, mine is not so easy. It should be, but has not been for me.
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I say nice work, the new shed with windows looks great! Bricks are great to have on hand.
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Hello, this new shelter is magnificent! So neat !
Why did you empty the water butts? Their weight would have stabilized them during the storm…
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They were emptied out before the storm. Decided not to keep the water in them over winter as a few seem to be leaking.
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The new shed is looking good. You sound like me when it comes to throwing out ‘useful’ items. I never throw anything away that I can repurpose.
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That’s a very fine shed – big too. What colour are you going to paint it?
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