One week down in Formal and man was it an interesting week. Monday was a nasty day it just poured so all the trainees went to the seed department to clean seeds it was interesting but got a little dull after a while. We got to use seives and an asperator to seperate the seeds. It was nice to be dry and out of the rain. Tuesday we started installing the winter bedding scheme in the walled garden and we continued that into Wednesday we barely finished but we managed to finish with half an hour left on Wednesday. We started Wed morning by continuing to install all the plants we had laid out on Tuesday. After all the plants were installed then we had to go back through the beds and plant the spring bulbs in amongst the pansies. Then finally once all the bulbs were popped in we tidied up the area and we were finally done. You can see the final result in the pictures below. I have also included some pictures of where I am staying so you can get an idea of my living quarters. Thursday I spent working in what is known as the AGM borders where plants that have recieved the AGM- award of garden merit are planted. It is a border that highlights plants that have been trialed and selected as good plants and cultivars. They stand out amongst other plants similar to it and are planted for their hardiness, color, or other special quality. We worked on cleaning up the beds and removing plants and cutting them back for winter. Friday morning was spent cleaning up leaves and such to make the formal parts of the garden look cleaner. After the clean up we got ready for some planting. We replanted some pots at the garden enterance and around the canal. About 3:00 on Friday out of no where a big black cloud rolled in and started dumping some pretty heavy rain and all the sudden it started hailing it lasted about five minutes and then it stopped and the sun came out again. And yes there was a rainbow! and I managed to get a faint picture of it. Enjoy I did it was a nice end to my first week on formal.
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