Garden mayhem
Photos from my garden - I have no idea where to start. Or how.Clearing the path so Postman Pat can get through would probably be best but
I have almost exactly a month before the gala days start, and that means parades through the Scottish country towns, of which mine is one, and literally thousands of international visitors who have nothing better to do with their holidays than follow parades through Scottish country towns. It is quite a tourist attraction so gardens that look like jungles are frowned upon. The parade in my town doesn't just pass my garden - I am on the corner of the road the parade turns up. It will be sneered at by many, many, many people.
This is what happens when you spend too much time writing or chatting on CS
okay and when it rains most weekends so you can't get out there ... Postman is getting restless. Health & Safety is being mentioned in a grumbling undervoice.
Glimpse of house behind black acer, forsythia and rioting honeysuckle
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On second thoughts, forget the chainsaw, I'm not sure you can be trusted with one
I'm thinking of having a garden party, everyone bring clippers, secateurs, chainsaws ... you in?
Of COURSE I am to be trusted with a chainsaw.
Hedge trimmer? Industrial strength?
I'm with Seri - RUN!!
I don't think the advice is quite what you were hoping for!
Advice. Please.
Or, better, come visit sometime in the next month
It is, thank heavens, tiny. You have seen practically the whole thing. The courtyard at the back is as bad but PHEW has a 6'fence so is not as urgent an issue. I just need to lop the tops off the jungle there.
you need him!
And some sturdy gardening gloves
Wish I could help, I love gardening and the bigger the job, the more rewarding the result
An oxymoron if ever I've heard one!!
Of course not, Unlao!
Refer to reply to Ped's '...serious blog' comment.
Business opportunity - open a shop that hires out serious gardening equipment on sunny Sundays.
Which would have been nice.
The sun is over the yardarm by now so I can go saw branches
Z, Use bat guano for roses here in Spain, mine are perfect.
Sterkte was, oddly enough, something I was muttering under my breath. A lot. Along with eina, you BLIKSEM, and other useful gardening words from the land of my birth
Spare room is made up and ready
Oh, btw, do they thrive in a climate which rarely tops 20 degrees C, and has 300 days of rain a year?
Aching in nearly every joint, mind. But pleased ...
They've also been successful beyond their original native range. You shouldn't have a problem.
The one thing that thrives under them, blue grass, is a good thing. Very fine blades; it's planted on golf courses.
I've heard golf is kinda big in Scotland.
If o shower, just jet the worst areas in the hottest you can take, and if bearable, follow by icy cold
Lovely pic. I am extremely glad my garden could fit into that 10 times over
We actually pretty much invented everything.
Well, I say we, I just live here but my ANCESTORS (check out the hair) invented everything.
Okay, check out your hair, you can claim 'em too
but there weren't.
"Run!" Huh.
well I like it...looks good to me...I like them looking wild and free so leave the garden alone
I just pulled out of the weeds on my garden this morning Elle and trimmed the bush..