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It was almost a perfect garden
Last week I spend more then 20 hours of working in my garden. Yesterday evening it did look almost perfect.
Today a summer storm rages over Holland and my garden is a big mess. I can start all over again. Everywhere broken branches and leaves. Crushed flowers and a soaking wet lawn.
Sometimes gardening is discouraging and for now I don't have the energy to clean it up.
How did your garden survive this storm in the UK?
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I'm in Northern Ireland tour one didn't reach use, but we have had others, I have decided to consider it as natural pruning and watching the regrowth is great
Yes, it is very very frustrating at times.
Give it a day or two now, to get the worse of the trauma out of your system, then you can clean up, and with the good soaking most plants will sprint up again in no time at all.
We had torrential rain for 18 hours and very strong winds too, luckily no real damage this time but I'm sorry you were less fortunate Rinus. The bonus is that the ground is now just right for digging up mistakes and generally moving stuff around which is what I have been doing this afternoon and everything looks really refreshed.
The others are spot on, your garden will look lovely again in a couple of weeks
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You must be devastated. Hopefully your plants are just damaged and not lost. We will be thinking of you.
Oh I feel your pain. I had the same last year. New beds lovingly tended and was ey excited and proud of them. Then hailstones in June ripped them up. I hope the clear up isn't too painful for you.
Hi Rinus,
Goedemorgen from another gardener from The Netherlands
. I'm in de Betuwe, so fortunately not near the coast, but it was still pretty wild here.
My garden is also a mess, I'm afraid. Some plants look as if they've been through the shredder!
And all the bean stalks have fallen over in the veg plot. The beans are a complete wreck.
I'm going to rip them all out and try sowing again. It's very late, but perhaps if we get a nice autumn...
At least the sun is shining again and the wind has gone, so I think we'd better start clearing up. Us gardeners are a tough lot.
Good luck with the clear-up!
I'll be thinking of you when I start clearing up the mess. Something like "Gedeelde smart is halve smart".
Heartbreaking for both of you. Gardeners face all sorts of challenges but that's one event you don't expect to have at this time of year. Good luck with the clearing up and try and see it as a rejuvenation which will make the garden better.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It happens. Where I live we get some serious weather. I'm at the cross roads of 2 valleys and quite high up so no matter which way the wind is blowing it's hitting here! We get snow.... serious snow and lots of it.
It could be said my whole garden style is based on knowing for certain that things will get blown to bits, buried under 3 feet of snow, suffer from severe frost for more than 6 months of the year. Get battered with heavy rain (as last night!).
It's why when I did my garden I decided to go for a decidedly "unkempt country garden look". That's my excuse for not having such as pristine manicured lawns and weed free paths and borders and for having things like nettles among the foxgloves under the trees in the wooded area
IF I even bothered about fallen leaves or crushed flowers then seriously I'd be dead from stress by now!
Same reason I couldn't do "minimalist" in the house. Though I can admire it. It would never work for me. I like more "homely" and "lived in". It has the advantage of being able to cover up and stand a bit of a mess.
Though got to say that when I walked round this morning to take a look to see if things had freshed up after the overnight heavy rain I did think to myself "Why the heck didn't I stake the sidalcea!?" Now mainly battered flat! Hey ho! But it's "just" a garden. Believe me I'm nowhere near as bothered as my partner is and who has aborted all plans to make hay and who is now having to go to plan B and bale and wrap for haylage.
Take a look at this thread and you'll see my postings and photos and what I mean about what my garden is like and what it has to withstand.
http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/talkback/new-gardener-here/750244.html