I suggested Clartinton Clart might like to change her name by weed poll as she can no longer post pics on this thread. I thought it might make her feel more included! (I think she's a bit dodgy...she irons stuff!!! Just sayin!!!)
Wood avens in my pic? I don't know. What are they?
That phormium is about 8 feet high. Wren is a small lab and is about 4ft in front of it (can you tell she was a gun dog...look at the goes of her).
I brushcutted (made up word) into the 4ft nettles last week and found turks cap lillies in behind that dogwood....also about 8 feet high!
Wood avens? I'll give you wood avens. I went all the way down the garden in a fit of excitement to look at ....buttercups! Wood avens indeed. How very dare you?
The dogwood from the side including a pieris and a rhody I didn't know I had.
Is this trickery? I noticed some wood avens in the background of the first picture. Are they huge too? Do you live near a nuclear power plant? I've played plants and zombies and I'm a bit uneasy
Not a one! Too many birds and bigger insects to eat them. Dragonflies, damsel flies, wrens having a bath in the lily pads, frogs and froglets....it's all go in there and it's a natural pond!
I've been here nearly two years so this is my second full Summer. I've cleared a good bit but by the time I have the maintenance done there's not much time, or to be honest, energy left to do the renovations. It can take up to six hours to cut the grass depending on the conditions. By conditions I mean access to iron lung!!!! My face this morning was the colour of the post reply button.
It rains a lot here so in the first Summer I alternated gardening with doing the house up. It was clean and tidy but not to my taste so it was one long paint job.
On the banks over at the fence I'm battling bindweed, ground elder, brambles and snowberry plus all the usual annuals so I'll not plant anything till that's cleared.
The pond is a different story. It's a natural pond and acts as a sump. I dug a ditch last year to put a pipe in in order to keep the level down in the surrounding area. Because of the constant rain and also the natural springs it's the only thing I can do. Until the pond level went down I couldn't cut the grass. I was over my ankles in water. I have marginal plants growing in my "lawn"!
Did I mention that I love it?
No crocodiles but lots and lots of everything else!
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PP, it's a squad of navvies that you need to get that bank cleared
Rippling muscles and all that
I suggested Clartinton Clart might like to change her name by weed poll as she can no longer post pics on this thread. I thought it might make her feel more included!
(I think she's a bit dodgy...she irons stuff!!! 
Just sayin!!!)
Wood avens in my pic? I don't know. What are they?
That phormium is about 8 feet high. Wren is a small lab and is about 4ft in front of it (can you tell she was a gun dog...look at the goes of her).
I brushcutted (made up word) into the 4ft nettles last week and found turks cap lillies in behind that dogwood....also about 8 feet high!
Wood avens? I'll give you wood avens. I went all the way down the garden in a fit of excitement to look at ....buttercups! Wood avens indeed. How very dare you?
The dogwood from the side including a pieris and a rhody I didn't know I had.
and this is my pond!
Last edited: 07 June 2016 17:49:36
Ok PP Sorry for my scepticism. It's certainly a monster!
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It's OK - aren't the plants on our side?!
Not a one! Too many birds and bigger insects to eat them. Dragonflies, damsel flies, wrens having a bath in the lily pads, frogs and froglets....it's all go in there and it's a natural pond!
Last edited: 07 June 2016 17:57:39
I've been here nearly two years so this is my second full Summer. I've cleared a good bit but by the time I have the maintenance done there's not much time, or to be honest, energy left to do the renovations. It can take up to six hours to cut the grass depending on the conditions. By conditions I mean access to iron lung!!!!
My face this morning was the colour of the post reply button.
It rains a lot here so in the first Summer I alternated gardening with doing the house up. It was clean and tidy but not to my taste so it was one long paint job.
On the banks over at the fence I'm battling bindweed, ground elder, brambles and snowberry plus all the usual annuals so I'll not plant anything till that's cleared.
The pond is a different story. It's a natural pond and acts as a sump. I dug a ditch last year to put a pipe in in order to keep the level down in the surrounding area. Because of the constant rain and also the natural springs it's the only thing I can do. Until the pond level went down I couldn't cut the grass. I was over my ankles in water. I have marginal plants growing in my "lawn"!
Did I mention that I love it?
No crocodiles but lots and lots of everything else!
Last edited: 07 June 2016 20:07:53
This is my pond cleaning machine but she only visits occasionally.
Also she's tiny and might drown any minute because the pond's 4 1/2 feet deep in places!