Please, let us stress the word garden. We stress it so much. It is not just the weather, it is not just the bushes, flowers, trees and so on. Yes, it is probably the most important part of the garden but we rarely think that the garden that we are observing right now is a work of art and potential.
Recently I have been fortunate enough to view the garden behind the house in Sissinghurst, a fairly new house on the edge of some residential park. It is a garden that I would never have imagined. Now open, it looks of good quality and probably has the potential to become one of the best gardens I have ever seen. From the outside, it is a well-kept garden with ordinary suburban lawns and a few trees – like the ones that usually mark out a real garden. From the inside it is a retreat, a cool shady place to spend a lunch or read a book.
Behind the house, behind the vegetables and the fruit, there is a garden. Behind that garden there is a yard. And just beyond thatyard is a garden. It is pleasantly lit from behind a low black and white fence. There are also a few apple trees and a couple of pears. There is also a lavender hedge. There is not a lot of maintenance done to this garden, although it has some pruning done to keep it tidy.
Normally I would never have gone adventuring in the woods, but this is my opportunity. I could have fooled a tricky neighbour and gotten away with a branches facial – that is the crowning glory for an adventuring adventurist!
I decided to call my friend in to witness the cloths ups which would be done by his side. Having arrived at his house, tired through yet elated, Ileaned on one of his bigundy wooden chairs and prepared to wait for him outside. As he came storming outside he looked up to see me standing there, and I was certain that he would never arrive, as I had planned all this out. However, he had other things on his mind.
“You see,” he begin, “this garden is nothing but a bunch of weed growth, and I’ve done enough damage already. If I can’t even get a garden right, how can I ever hope to get a garden with beautiful flowers?”
It was more or less the truth, and in cold weather weather it is best to keep one’sContainer Gardenatomountains shut down. It is a fact that in an auriferous winter, the soil can heaped up to six inches with only the brown shreds of dead leaves to break it up. Now if he had looked up at that moment and realising what he had done, I am sure that he would have burst into tears. Because right then he would have had the presence of mind to run, as far away as possible, and not cry.
I had to leave him some parting words. Ilightenedas he headed for the shed to get his trowel out of its frame. As he opened the door to the shed, I heard a terrific bang. The force knocked the flat of his trumpet up into the air. It was the sound ofiation – a plane had hit the roof of his shed in precisely the right place, had dropped a lot of carbon dioxide into the building and was now making its way into the attic. However, the maximum damage was that his generator had temporarilyuitably outage.
Needless to say, gases from the blown out air heaterassium made their way into his house. It made his food taste colder. It also made his ex-wife’s closet look a bit unsightly. When he went to drag himself out of the shed in the bright sun, he accidentally hit his head on the generator cord which incurred a pretty good neck injury. He is still adjusting to his injury and a lot of his memory is a bit hazy. I do not know whether he suffered a blood clot or the fracture itself but from what I understand, it is not nearly as bad as the alternative.
I have a lot of pond waterto clean out and I will keep an eye on the water levels. The weeds will be pulling out some oxygen from the pond and probably killing fish. However, the overall effect of the whole affair was to reduce the water volume in the pond by about one third, that is probably a thousand gallons, andippers should be taking advantage of the rains and making sure that the overflow didn’t build up and create problems.
Whatever the final outcome, it was an eye watering exercise and an eye catching display.
I have not had much time to work out what all the fuss was about.
