Yours are worse than mine then NB. Mine is a widow, similar age to me, and she works hard trying to keep the garden tidy but is currently having an extension built - mostly by her son, a fireman and ex-builder and has been living with him and his wife while the work goes on...and on.....and on. That's the main reason why I feel I shouldn't complain actually as I think she must have other things on her mind.
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.
@christian.defeo Welcome to the forum . Email the companies and tell them it's only August ,and you're not booking with a company who "plug" christmas when the kids are still on school holidays
@DyersEnd, I know it's not in the spirit of this thread, but why not ask if you can go round and clear the invasive stuff from under the hedge (if you're able to)?
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Well, in that case. I'm not really a flower border sort of person but make the effort every so often, I have a few raised beds and decided to make one decorative.
I think I must have watched some gardening thing as I covered the Montbretia (or whatever it's called now), Ophiopogum and Spirea Japonica with a pebble 'mulch' and it has looked quite nice for the last couple of years.
I should have paid more attention to it, the Montbretia has gone mad and there is couch grass twined in the Spirea and I have spent most of the morning trying to dig out the 'mulch' so I can get the fork in to clear it up. Grrrrr
"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
OK, that's it! Half way across the bed and I plunged the trowel into a red ants nest. Time for a cup of tea and let them relocate, not ferreting around with my hand in there.
"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
The drought and Dutch elm disease meant that seven of my elm trees had reached the point of no return and had to be felled today. It’s such a shame, as is the tree surgeon’s bill. He said that the remaining elms, maybe 9 or so, are currently healthy but there is no optimism they’ll stay that way.
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Email the companies and tell them it's only August ,and you're not booking with a company who "plug" christmas when the kids are still on school holidays
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
I think I must have watched some gardening thing as I covered the Montbretia (or whatever it's called now), Ophiopogum and Spirea Japonica with a pebble 'mulch' and it has looked quite nice for the last couple of years.
I should have paid more attention to it, the Montbretia has gone mad and there is couch grass twined in the Spirea and I have spent most of the morning trying to dig out the 'mulch' so I can get the fork in to clear it up. Grrrrr