The Gardener needs help...and this arrived yesterday in the form of D. and G., professional gardeners. They dug over the bed that was used for potatoes this year, removing the creeping buttercup as they went. Now it looks like this...
Now the perennials that were grown this year can be lined out, as they can't be planted in the bed next to the fence yet. In the past perennials left in small pots over the winter have sometimes rotted off, so the hope is that they will be better drained and safer in the ground.
There's a neglected Viburnum opulus just through the orchard gate. It became covered in an overgrowth of brambles, and each year is attacked by viburnum beetle Pyrrhalta viburni. This reduces the leaves to something resembling lace curtains. Most of the bramble has been removed now.
The next step is to cut the whole thing down and hope it grows back in the spring, stronger for not having to compete with the bramble. Hopefully that will get rid of most of the beetle pupae as well.
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