Garden Organic is holding a three-day conference this weekend, so the gardens must be spick and span. I worked all last week in the Compost Display Garden putting in new woodchip paths and tidying the beds. It’s amazing how putting in a new path can make the borders look more lush. I tidied up the restaurant borders by removing thyme where it had seeded itself in every small gap, and replaced it with Cerastium biebersteinii, which is in full bloom at the moment with beautiful white flowers and silvery foliage.
We’ve got two weeks left to complete our diplomas so I’ve been working like a mad woman answering test papers. I’m becoming slightly daunted by the next plant identification as it involves learning 65 species. Put it this way, I’m crossing all my fingers and toes that I pass it.
On a brighter note, it rained properly over the weekend. I can almost hear a sigh of relief from the gardens. They’re looking so beautiful at the moment, I just don’t want to leave. And because I’ve had such a wonderful experience here I’ve decided to volunteer as a gardener for a month, finishing planting out and keeping up to my three gardens which I love.
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