Moving plants

 I normally find gardening relaxing, even if I'm doing really strenuous work. The sense of achievement at the end of a gardening session is a really good feeling. But on Sunday I didn't feel that way. After a rather dreary rainy day, the sun decided to make its presence known late in the afternoon and I decided that I would make the most of it and do an hour's gardening before dinner. I thought, as there were a few weeds about I would just potter around the borders with the hoe. That would be a nice relaxing thing to do. That's when I started to feel uneasy.

As I worked my way around the borders with my hoe, I realised how well everything was growing and I remembered that last year I had made a few mental notes that certain plants needed to be split up this year. And there were others which just needed to be moved because they were in the wrong place. It was all a case of a bit of overcrowding in the borders. And in my general busyness of sorting out the vegetable seed sowing and looking after the allotment I had forgotten. And so I started to feel overwhelmed with all the jobs I had to do because time was running out, the plants were getting more established and before long it would be too late to start moving them around.

Well two days later, the sun was shining, I had no grandchildren commitments and a full day to garden. So I made a start. In the end it was only an afternoon because I had a lazy time over breakfast reading a gardening magazine (jobs to be done this month!!)  a quick trip to the local shops, then it was time for lunch.

But I got loads done. I had to make a plan first, write it all down--move those two sedums, one to the middle one to the other end. Move the tradescantia and the geraniums to make way for the sedums. Dig up the grass, which I never liked, but where to put it? It ended up in a pot until I decided what to do with it.

So that's one border sorted, I still have more to do but I feel I achieved something today.  I just hope I can get the other plants moved before the growing season gets really underway.

What jobs are you trying to get done in the garden at this moment?