Autumn in the Garden

This morning the sun enticed me outside to plant my box of over one hundred bulbs. I had two types of daffoldils, crocuses, my favourite specias tulips- T. tarda, T. kaufmanniana and T. chrysantha, as well as Chionodoxa-an early blue bulb and the extremely hardy and prolific Pushkinnia alba. The only bulb I didn't have, which I want, is Muscari, grape hyacinths to plant among the primroses.

I took the opportunity to divide my three types of thyme, cutting each into three or four pieces to plant, alternating each type, along the edge of the rose bed. I divided the lambs ears and the Dianthus deltoides and planted them further along the bed. I had not planned to bring the self seeding Dianthus deltoides with me, it came as a seed buried in one of my bags of compost. Unlike its cousins it has no fragrance, although the hot pink flowers contrast nicely with its silvery foliage and it will look good with the roses.

All this took me why longer than I thought it would. I still have garlic to plant, potatoes to dig and spread on the deck to dry, carrots to dig, wash and put in plastic bags, blackened, dead foliage to pull up and put on the compost, pea vines to dismantle, weeding, and the pea trellis to take down and put away. If only the forecast was for sun not rain.