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We totally lucked out.
We have someone who comes to walk our dogs when we are both working and away from home. She brought her mum along one day. Mum is an RHS trained gardener and promptly offered to help us with the gardening. She also loves our dogs so is happy to come and garden and let the hounds out.
She is a brilliant teacher, and when we are here shows/tells us what to do in the garden, and will come on days when we aren’t home to garden/dog sit.
So our garden is tidier than it has been all year and we have pruned raspberry canes and other things in preparation for next year.
The best bit is she charges us peanuts for her help/advice. She had undercut her daughter by 50%.
dancing james
I caved and paid someone to tidy up the garden for winter.
It's paid off though as I have got inspired to plant peonies, tulips and ranunculae bulbs and tubers today.
I've never done bulbs before as this is my first gardening year in the new house. Over the year I have put down snow drops, bluebells, tulips, daffodils, narcissii, muscarii, naturalised crocii in the lawn and now peonies and ranunculae.
Can't wait for spring!