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Things I wish I hadn't done ...

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Dovefromabove said:
    Lyn said:
    TIWIHD....... Walked around the garden not looking out for  🦊 💩 🤢🤮
    Not looking out for what @Lyn ?  All I can see is three empty squares and a Christmas tree 
    The images, from left to right, are a fox head, a brown curly object!, a green sad face and an up-chucking face :-)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Thank you @KT53 :)  .... oh dear ... poor @Lyn  :'(

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    Yesterday - Bent over to stake my tall yellow lilies, caught the front one with my shoulder and broke it off at ground level!!
    Years ago - saying yes to a plant of Creeping Jenny. It is now everywhere in one border and war has been declared this week. I have had enough of it!! 
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    An old one, but cutting back giant hogweed in shorts - reacted very badly and the scars are a daily reminder.

    Not realising that hedges need watering in drought.

    Buying cheap wooden border edging that’s now rotting and falling over 

    Having severely chopped back rampant viburnum shrubs and got them under control and looking good, got carried away this year and made a pigs ear of my topiary.

    Hoiking out a Cotinus that was suffering in the heat - it was young and I should have given it more time to settle.

    Buying ‘that will do’ plants rather than holding out for what I really wanted

    Planting Tithonia to fill gaps - it’s taking over the world.

    Livaing and learning...(that’s not a thing I wish I hadn’t done)
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    nutcutlet said:
    Pulled the buttercups up from under the Eleagnus.
    There's a wasp nest in there
    Oh dear @nutcutlet ... did they get you? 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    KT53 said:
    Dovefromabove said:
    Lyn said:
    TIWIHD....... Walked around the garden not looking out for  🦊 💩 🤢🤮
    Not looking out for what @Lyn ?  All I can see is three empty squares and a Christmas tree 
    The images, from left to right, are a fox head, a brown curly object!, a green sad face and an up-chucking face :-)
    All I can see is the brown curly object. .
    West Yorkshire
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    Fixing a hole in the fence to keep a muntjac deer out only to discover a few days later that I'd trapped the deer inside....
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ah, the brown curly object isn't a Christmas tree oops  lol

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Dovefromabove said:
    nutcutlet said:
    Pulled the buttercups up from under the Eleagnus.
    There's a wasp nest in there
    Oh dear @nutcutlet ... did they get you? 
    yes, the sting was fairly painless but was followed by the usual itch and swelling


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ouch!  :'(

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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