You are a true gardener- persevering through the pain. First day of Spring. Planted Munstead Wood rose after an 18 month wait for it. Thanks to you, who showed me the beauty of it. Garden on my dear gardening friend. All the best to you and Miss Ava. Nina

Edging makes a big difference in the garden

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Spring is such an exciting time! Hope your back heals fast 💞

Good work darren, hope your back gets better soon take care.❤

Peony hellebores my favs ❤ your pain eases with distraction. Just pace . Love TK Maxx 😂

Oh my Darren! I never appreciated how much hard work you need to do to maintain your glorious garden! Look after yourself please. I understand gardening in pain, am awaiting a new hip so I can only do a few minutes at a time in my simple garden.. However, I so love your King Charles & Camilla mug I have just ordered one, coming all the way to Australia soon I hope! 💕

Deine Garten wird sich langsam wieder erholen, aber du hast noch viel zu leisten. Achte auf deine Rückenschmerzen denn ich kenne diese Schmerzen. Schöne dich. Die Kamilia blühet schon und hat so viele Knospen. Die Frühlingsblumen zeigen das die Frühling nahe ist. GUTE BESSERUNG, DARREN ❤.Danke für gute Video!!!

0:15 Yay! You dry your clothes out in the sunshine and ozone like we have always done. Your back, my last serving of that was October last year after an hour or so of leaning over and dragging 70 pound bags of potatoes from our garden to the trailer for winter storage, around 400 pounds of them. Soon your back will be back to normal. At 64 years of age I was hoping that it would not be the "new me" for the remainder of my life.😆😆 3:12 Mrs. Tingsley has a beautiful, luminous, pure shade of pink! Camellias will not survive our Ohio winters. I would need to keep them in massive pots, providing more opportunity for lower back pain moving them about.😄😄 4:50 Do I see dandelions in there?? If so, eat them. According to United States Department of Agriculture they contain 2X the ammount of beta carotene than carrots. My entire life, we gather them, boil them in water, then add some vinegar and butter and salt, quite good tasting until they become to mature to digest. 5:25 Last summer I bought some delphinium seeds from a family in New Zealand that grows mildew resistant varieties. We are in a valley where cool moist night air settles, by moring everything is soaked, making a hospitable environment for mildew. They are in pots all winter growing strong, I hope that they are strong performers like yours is. 7:00 The clothesline challenge in England is so very many raing days so I hear. But the sunshine and ozone if present is far healthier for prevening mildew in cloting than clothes dryers do. The clothes smell so much better also from the ozone purification that happens, AND, the money saved by not running a dryer can be spend on new rose palnts , Yay! That is always a good thing. I have a miniature (2 feet tall mature height) red Ralph Moore moss rose headed my way this month. It shall go into one of my 100 year old pots for it's first years. Honestly, I wear rags at home so that I can spend the money on more plants, only one good, "go to town" set of clothes. Roses excite me, fine clothing, not so much. 7:33 doggies like Ava I adore, i can not stand cats, but we are afflicted with a herd of them this year, SO, the rodents did not eat my crocus and muscari this year. the cats have been a miserable blessing in that regard. Doggies radiate love, cats are sleazy sluts. Meeow! 8:03 Foxgloves! Two months from now your garden is going to be a fragrant, beautiful paradise! 9:53 Yes, if we look at ALL that needs done it can be daunting, but if we dismiss from our mind all of that and just set a reasonable goal for the day, then before long, it is all done. Great progress for being a cripple! 😆😆 14:27 Hello Ava sweetie! Nice weather is coming for you! 💓💓 14:59 Here in Ohio we always called those "Virginia Bluebells" My first memory of them is at the age of 6, they are very uncommon here now days. I love the changing color of the blooms. 15:42 A few years ago I planted white on yellow daffodils, transitioned them into solid yellow then transitioned into yellow on white. the effect that I was hoping for did not occur because one type flowers early, the others flower late! 20:00 For those situations I have for many years a 3 inch wide Japanese made short handled garden hoe, I keep it razor sharp, swiftly slice off weeds with it in close spaces. Everyone should have such a hoe, by keeping it razor sharp, i can rapidly eliminate enormous swathes of weeds, I slice them off when they are quite small, it makes the work much faster than if the weeds attain a larger size. Alas, another chapter in a book that I have written. You back will soon be better. I also use a lot of black, woven weed barrier to help keep weeds under control.

Getting there slowly Darren. I’ve got nasty back problems. If you have or get pins and needles in your legs or feet you better get it seen my your doctor Or if your hands do it.

I can sympathise. My back hates me digging stuff. Its taken me a week so far to bed in some stepping stones. and still got 4 more to do. Ive dug out a new bed aswell. It will be worth the discomfort in the end , try a hot water bottle on it

Love the updates of your garden 🌷🌷🌷 What about black plastic perforated landscape fabric to kill the ground elder. I’ve used that to kill grass and weeds in some areas.

I must confess I would be sorely tempted crack out the roundup for that awful weed 🫣 but I know you don’t use chemicals in your lovely garden!

Towels are great but can l also just comment on your fab pj's! Feel the same about groundelder, it's soul destroying. Just keep at it.