Tues 3 July 2012 Plant remaining herbaceous in rose garden One on one

Drizzle, warm, muggy

Planting herbaceous in old rose bed

With Patti, we gather all left over plants in greenhouse area - initially we took the Sanguisorba which are much recovered after watering yesterday and Penstemons, which were looking strong. Jim placed and we planted, he asked that we scrape off bark mulch, dig hole, remove excess  soil and then re lay mulch.

Jim bought us the rest of plants and left us to position

5 x Verbena which were looking very sad, after being cut back hard by Jim,but water hope to have revived.

2 x Berberis

1 x Ceratostigma willmottianum

2 x Cotoneaster 'Coral beauty'

8 x Canna

Patti watererd them in, bed was full of rubbish so I litter picked and weeded. 

PM. After lunch my One on One with Jim in coffee house.

My list included

• more guidance and demonstration on tasks- gave example of yesterday edging with C
• the identification codes of the garden plans I have scanned in
• an overview of the garden- what plans and what direction does Jim visualise
• More structured plant dentification and folow up on unidentified plants
• Overview of my bee learning in  the year
• Machinery, ride on mower training
• Also mentioned the unsettling atmosphere re A, 

Jim responded positively, asked me to give a couple of weeks to get past the next lot of judging for

• London in bloom
• Britain in bloom
• Pimlico on bloom!

Last month we had the Green Flag judging 


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