Love lemongrass @Shaz51, but down here, I have to baby it through our cold weather...not always successfully. I haven't even tried for a few years. Will again at some point, maybe when I've got my greenhouse really really properly set up. It's working OK at the moment, but the current "door" is a piece of shadecloth, and there's lots of gaps that need sealing up.
In the meantime, I use Lemon Verbena as my cool climate substitute.
Have had a productive session in the garden this afternoon, planted a heap of oriental iris bulbs (Spuria) that I had dug up ages ago, was able to border a garden bed with them (and still have some left over to give away)
I also moved a clump of leafy greens plants that I knew contained day lilies and found some bearded iris and some other bulbs, species unknown. Replanted what I could use and will also be offering the left overs to a friend. Am hoping the iris and bulbs will be desirable varieties but at present they help fill empty spots.
@Former-Member, I think I've got three handleless forks waiting for handles... One I won't bother with. It's a modern one, a high quality (expensive) brand, but oooh I was not impressed. The tines bent, and lost their temper so they kept re-bending, and eventually the metal sheaf that goes around the handle tore. The two I will fix are old solid ones. They should last almost-forever.
@Adge, I've got a lovely Anais Segales rose growing at the front of our driveway, but I didn't realise how big a clump it would grow into, so I'll have to relocate it to somewhere roomier. I'm seriously considering a hedge of it- by the time I break up the clump, I think there would be enough. (The wallabies will love me forever... 😛 But that's OK, I think it'll be vigourous enough to withstand a little bit of grazing.)
There was also a Bloomfields Abundance next to the driveway when we moved here. Totally unpruned, maybe 5' wide and 8' tall. After musing about it for ages, I decided to hard prune it back to a straight trunk at a point where there were masses of young shoots coming out = masses of ready to grow leaf nodes. Hubby came out when I was 8/10ths of the way through reducing it to a stump, and got a bit of a shock. "Hang on Sweet, shouldn't you think about this?" "....I've been thinking about it for the last six months!" Sure enough, after a slightly nervous couple of months wait, it sent out an absolute cloud of growth in springtime. 🙂 Now I give it a pruning every year, and occasionally another hard prune if it gets away from me.
There's some old roses in Mum and Dad's garden that my sister and I want to dig out. Some of them she got from a friend who had a specialist old rose garden. I know there's Zephrine Drohuin, and Reine des Violettes... some David Austins, some modern tea roses, and a few others that are probably heritage varieties. We were hoping to be getting them out about now. Oh well. 
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