big chop back on my round garden.

Great garden but how do you get your blog and your pics together at the same time??? ,I'm having trouble can you HELP!!

You could put your comments in before you put in each picture, Swanky, but that takes ages! I download my pics in the order they're going in, & take notes as i download them save it all, then re-edit (with my notes as a guide) & put the comments in then! If youget it muddled (I often do) you just save it, read through, & cut & paste to edit it again.

Oops! Sorry, Sandra! Great blog, & what a lot you got done!!

thanks Swanky its a bit of trial and error. it takes me ages but i just keep saving to draft and then doing the next

i was delighted with what i got done. but now i have a blister from the choppers and and aching back. but i'm lookin forward to getting in there and finishing it....

Thanks you 2 i will keep trying.

wow, what a woman, great job. Nice to have a garden like that. I lost all my kaffir lilies last year, and they are so hard to find here in CDN.

thanks Doon. sorry about your lilys..;-((

As you say Sandra sometimes one has to spoil the look to make sure all is well next year but it never takes long to recover Well done and lets hope your weather is good enough to work outside..........

A very satisfying chop you've had there Sandra, it will soon come back and as you say, be all the better for it. I love Kaffir Lilies too, they come at just the right time when most other things are fading.
It takes me ages to do a blog with pictures too and I do it like you, bit by bit, but I am getting the hang of it, speeding up and learning along the way.

Good work, Sandra!
Swanky....write your text, then 'Save Draft'. Move cursor down a line, then choose the photo option, browse, select the photo you want and add it. Then 'Save Draft' again, then click on 'continue editing', move down a line under the photo string, continue writing text...and repeat until you've either run out of words to say or photos to download! If you write something and forget to 'Save as Draft' before downloading a photo, it will not save the text.
Hope that's helpful.

Great blog and photos

I enjoyed your pics and blog Sandra, I'm exhausted just reading it. :~))

glad you all like the blog...thanks..;-))

Thanks Bscott,thats very clear and helpful Watch this space!!:-)))

go Swanky its so addictive this blogging thing...look forward to reading yours...

I love to cut things back and watch them regrow. As you say they have plenty of time now to recover before the winter.

i managed to finish chopping this garden back to day, just before the rain came again...

Lucky Sandra :o)
It's poured down here all day long.

it stated here about eleven and has persistently chucked it down all day. we have put the doors on the polytunel now as the night time temps are falling fast....

Some trees I saw today look like it's October - brown leaves and almost bare branches. Early really.

i have been noticing it all week. but it is september tomorrow....i have started bringing things inside already....but i do love the autumn its not winter yet.....

I like the autumn too. I like it better than summer which is bright and in your face, and always too hot or too wet. But I think the trees are quite a few weeks further on than they should be.

i think your right Hywel. i have noticed this aswell....

Same up here Sandra/ Hywel!
The conkers are falling!

oooo maybe we should have an internet conker competition......lol

LOL! I'd end up breaking the monitor!!

garden looks great sandra, its ammazing how quickly it grows again to :o))

thanks Sandra i been chopping stuff back like a nutter today. we bought a shredder this mornig its amazing. i dont know why is taken us so lond to get one.

i think they are a great idea if you have alot of trees, and can use the wood shreds for you garden, well done,

i weeded out my fruit bushes the other day. so today i put all the shreddings from a buddlia hedge under them as a mulch......usualy i have to cart the branches to the top of the garden to burn. makes it soo much easier.

there you go, less work in the end sandra :o)

Sounds like fun!!!

Eeeeek aren't you brave. This is where I go wrong, after seeing this I'm going to attack everything that's too big or about to become unmanageable and maybe I'll find some hidden beauties too. I really enjoyed your blog and found it very informative in fact it's given me the push i needed, thanks:-)

glad u enjoyed Bornagain. i love opening up new views and vistas at this time of year. with four teenagers a husband and mother to live with. the garden is the only place i can get any control.....lol it looks shocking when you do chop things back but its worth it.

Wow you have a lot of work to do in your garden i expect it keeps you fit, will look even better next year.