Weeding and feeding at Biddulph Grange gardens 14 July 2013

Four volunteers travelled to Biddulph Grange gardens and were once again made to feel very welcome by the gardeners.   We spent the morning working in a shaded part of the pinetum weeding a bank that had some "rockery" like areas in it - photo hasn't come out.

In the afternoon we were asked to help feed various groups of bedding plants - every Dahlia in the Dahlia walk was fed individually by a team including our volunteers using watering cans which had been dosed with a much advertised brand of "soluble plant food".  We then repeated the process a parterre, geraniums in the Chinese gardens, a set of Red, Orange and Yellow flowers (whose variety I have forgotten!) at the house end of the Lyme avenue.

feeding the Dahlias individually

Many people asked why we were watering in the heat of the day - the answer of course is that the main watering IS done early in the morning before the garden opens - however the feeding is done when volunteers are available to help.