Sorry to hear you are under the weather @Joyce Goldenlily , so to speak, and I sympathise after a year of not being able to do much. ( Am now paying for it with huge weeds to remove!) It has left a large bare patch in the big bed that the hubby and I ( bless him) have bought and planted two evergreen shrubs into. Escallonia Donald Radiance and Viburnum Eve Price, both will make 4 to 6 feet and fill a hard to get at area. Am now filling gaps with bedding , and still finding weeds, between watering the veg patch, sorting out the tomatoes and even picking the first cues.
Hi everyone, Thank you for your good wishes. In a way, I feel quite a fraud. No symptoms except not being able to breathe. Quite a useful skill to have. Had convinced myself it was pneumonia/virus/pleurisy or similar. How wrong was I. At some time in the past I have had a heart attack which has finally caught up with me. I still cannot get my head around the fact I knew nothing about it. I have been sent home with a bucket of tablets and told to rest for a few weeks. I feel well in myself which makes it doubly difficult to sit and listen to my plants frying, the weeds growing and not be doing what I want. It is finally time to accept I am an old lady and must pull in my horns a bit! Not easy. I am already "pottering". Itchy fingers syndrome. The family are trying to help bless them, but it is never the same as doing it yourself. Patience Joyce. Patience.
It's very hard to accept you are getting or in fact are old isn't @Joyce Goldenlily? I'm fast coming round to the realisation I just can't do what I used to be able to. I've had to sit on my hands more or less for the last month or so and it's just so frustrating. It's a good job really that it's been so hot and dry here lately that the weeds aren't growing. I've given up on annuals, some pots, hanging baskets and anything that requires a lot of fussing.
I'm also going to get a handrail installed up the steps we use most often to the back garden . There's an old rockery to one side and I don't fancy hitting my head on one of the rocks if I fell!
Do hope you soon feel well enough for a little potter now and then.
I went for a little safari down the garden yesterday and was delighted to find my beautiful bearded iris flowering. Very pale delicate colours with a lovely scent. Slug chewed in places of course. I sorted out 3 trays of plants to pass on to my daughter which has cleared a little bit of space in the conservatory. Some watering today methinks and hopefully some potting on. Sitting down and small quantities. What a phaff! I am slowly working on my dogs feelings. He gave me the complete "cold shoulder" treatment when he came home. Black looks, wouldn't eat his breakfast, no cuddles, etc. A good job I have broad shoulders and can take it. He was a bit of a nightmare with my daughter, managed to get himself onto Facebook by escaping through a cat flap tunnel, out onto the road and into other people's gardens. He is beginning to thaw slowly. Can't believe I was lugging bags of compost out of the car, onto a sack trolley then down steps into the garden last week. Ah well, at least I am still around to whinge!
Being on holiday, I finished today the to do list with taking out the weeds in front of the house. After 2 hours, I had a hot bath to stabilise my bone scaffolding and god rid of the dust and dirt. Apart from the bench, which however is no must do, I can now look forward for relaxing days ahead. I’m not sure how, but hopefully I will make the switch to do nothing for 10 days.
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It has left a large bare patch in the big bed that the hubby and I ( bless him) have bought and planted two evergreen shrubs into. Escallonia Donald Radiance and Viburnum Eve Price, both will make 4 to 6 feet and fill a hard to get at area. Am now filling gaps with bedding , and still finding weeds, between watering the veg patch, sorting out the tomatoes and even picking the first cues.
Thank you for your good wishes.
In a way, I feel quite a fraud. No symptoms except not being able to breathe. Quite a useful skill to have. Had convinced myself it was pneumonia/virus/pleurisy or similar. How wrong was I.
At some time in the past I have had a heart attack which has finally caught up with me. I still cannot get my head around the fact I knew nothing about it.
I have been sent home with a bucket of tablets and told to rest for a few weeks. I feel well in myself which makes it doubly difficult to sit and listen to my plants frying, the weeds growing and not be doing what I want.
It is finally time to accept I am an old lady and must pull in my horns a bit!
Not easy.
I am already "pottering". Itchy fingers syndrome.
The family are trying to help bless them, but it is never the same as doing it yourself.
Patience Joyce. Patience.
I've given up on annuals, some pots, hanging baskets and anything that requires a lot of fussing.
I'm also going to get a handrail installed up the steps we use most often to the back garden . There's an old rockery to one side and I don't fancy hitting my head on one of the rocks if I fell!
Do hope you soon feel well enough for a little potter now and then.
Slug chewed in places of course.
I sorted out 3 trays of plants to pass on to my daughter which has cleared a little bit of space in the conservatory. Some watering today methinks and hopefully some potting on. Sitting down and small quantities. What a phaff!
I am slowly working on my dogs feelings. He gave me the complete "cold shoulder" treatment when he came home. Black looks, wouldn't eat his breakfast, no cuddles, etc. A good job I have broad shoulders and can take it. He was a bit of a nightmare with my daughter, managed to get himself onto Facebook by escaping through a cat flap tunnel, out onto the road and into other people's gardens.
He is beginning to thaw slowly.
Can't believe I was lugging bags of compost out of the car, onto a sack trolley then down steps into the garden last week. Ah well, at least I am still around to whinge!
I ♥ my garden.
Hope you have a great day 🙂