These are the Tetra Versailles Red I was mentioning. Great on the first day of opening. I'm not sure I really want to grow flowers that have a few hours of glory. I feel like I should fill my diary with moments when buds will break.
I'm having a gargantuanly curmudgeonly day. Some tit broke in half a young eight ft cherry street tree on our road. There's no way it wasn't intentional. Five people didn't turn up to collect Freecycle stuff. Five! My road is smeared with dog s**t from a very sick dog. All the way down the road.
I'm trying to hold off the "humanity is rubbish" fume. It doesn't help that humanity is pretty rubbish. On some days it doesn't matter so much.
How can I persuade my otherwise perfectly nice neighbour to get rid of the brambles. sycamore and elder (not to mention the ivy, nettles and bryony) which are coming into my garden through her hedge? There is plastic coated chicken wire type fencing on my side so I can't get at them to deal with them myself.
Had an email from Wyevale inviting me to make a booking to meet Father Christmas.......it's AUGUST ! I know he's very popular, but FGS. This has made me very curmudgeonly indeed, so l probably won't get any presents this year.
I try to live in harmony with the birds that visit my garden but they don't always understand this. Why is it that when I hang out white washing they eat elder and blackberries and when I hang out coloured washing the poo is always white?
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
DyersEnd, you have my sympathy! With ours, its brambles, which are the worst thing, dandilions, and that tall grass stuff that seeds everywhere, they hardly touch their garden, occasional whip round with a mower thats all, they are a lot younger than us, are pretty fit,healthy,just lazy. They dont use half their garden (its unuseable now) the brambles are so big they are breaking the fence, (its their responsibility that side) we have replaced quite a few panels (didnt even get a thank you!) We actualy went "detached" this time round hoping to avoid "neighbour" problems! Our last house, we had to knock £50.000 off the sale price because of the crappy,weedy gardens each side of us.if that doesnt sound like a lot, that was up for £250.000 originally.
This is my first post, but as a notable curmudgeon, this is a good place as any to begin: I too am getting emails to book Christmas parties now. It's August. I still need to take hay fever medication. I can roll up my shirt sleeves without getting a chill. This is silly.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
I know he's very popular, but FGS. This has made me very curmudgeonly indeed, so l probably won't get any presents this year.