“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
I’ve been in the garden since 5 am, taking it out on any unwanted shrub stupid enough to get in my way! Apparently, we have a wicked sharp tool that would help me lots. But no one will tell me where it is :o( I smell a massive Conspiracy Theory brewing.
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Mrs Ur Um ? And q : KEW LOL :o)
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Look at that. See what has happened? The roses in my kitchen garden have been battered into absolute sadness by almost a week of torrential rain. All droopy and “wtf just happened?” I use these flowers in so many ways. And – AND – I can’t even look at those in the veg patch. Aaaaaargh! […]
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And they called Sarah Bernhardt melodramatic. Pish :o) We inherited several of the original Victorian Cast Iron gutters with the house. They were a little rusty and no good as gutters and abandoned in the garden. I’ve lost count of the times that “workmen” have offered to take them away for free (!!??) I’m using […]
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That up there in the title is the Latin name for Giant Hogweed. The image is a photo of MY garden and just how BIG this weed grows. (It’s the one with white flowers now taller than the first floor roof of the stable. How do I know this Latin name? Via La Belle Dame […]
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Well. I had a word with the wildlife and they just laughed at me. So – I had lots of words with the hoomans hereabouts. The result…..Humane Mole Traps. 2 outta 4 of us were DISGUSTED by the sight of ………… Anyway. MOLES ARE CUTE :o)
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Rosa Canina Decades ago, virtually every hedgerow in the UK had a Wild Dog Rose growing. Nowadays, especially around here, they are quite rare. Something that has always surprised me because I’m surrounded by farmland. Anyway – this is the interloper that I found in my sadly neglected raspberry run the other day. And the […]
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Yesterday I was given a handful of copper nails. I’d always thought this an old wives’ tale but our local council use them every day. Mmmmn. I wonder if they’ll work on Giant Hogweed :o)
Read MoreYup. For the first year I’ve got (in at least two places) 12 to 15 foot tall plants. They are pretty. But……further investigation is very much needed. Phyto/Photo – Toxic ? Oh. Craptacular. I’ve just warned everyone hereabouts :o(
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Stop Snotting, Key!!!!!
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This is a “clue” to a Ruth Rendell book. NO CLUES! Everywhere that I have lived…apart from here (?!) I’ve grown Morning Glory. They are sweet and simple and giving! Q : Oasis
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In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of ‘curious’ gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change – as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in […]
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