2022 - What I did today

No gardening for me today, but I've had a nice stroll around my Grandma's beautiful (and large!) garden. She's been there 51 years and it's been her life's great passion. She used to open it for the National Garden Scheme until my grandfather got dementia, and used to get quite a lot of visitors. It's a little overgrown and weedy in places now, but she has so many lovely plants and different garden areas. It was so nice to walk around getting ideas and trying to spot things to take cuttings from!

Advertise for a little help - if it's a lovely garden there are often people that enjoy gardening and love to volunteer.
I love the NGS... often go to open gardens.

My parents do a lot, but they can't match the hours she used to spend on it. Unfortunately she lives in a small village in rural NE Lincolnshire, so help is in short supply and most people have good sized gardens of their own. She tried to pay someone to come in but they wanted £600 per week! 

She still likes to direct proceedings though, and she enjoyed looking through the seed catalogues you all recommended. Even though she thinks her end is nigh, she ordered an awful lot of seeds and plants this year! There's no stopping a gardener