Summer is about breakfast in the garden
I leave the dressing gown and slippers behind as I leap out of my comfy chair to investigate. From now on it's the long white nightie investigating, as I lift up the invading triffid and hurrah - my treasure is still there, albeit pale and tiny, as though it's been grown under a sack! The invading triffid must be lopped. But where are the secateurs? In the shed. So round to the shed I trundle, long white nightie trailing along the ground, to get the secateurs. While I'm there I grab the loppers too, and the handfork to attack that big thistle which was bugging me, and perhaps the trowel as well, just in case something needs to be moved. Intent on the task in hand and oblivious to the white nightie and the odd passerby, I trail back to the front garden and with great glee, lop a bit off here, and dig out the offending thistle there. And suddenly I'm seeing a mass of other weedy problems which really need to be attended to on the spot! Eventually, I stand back and survey where I have been - the garden's looking much happier for that bit of instant attention. But then I remember I've got things to do - places to go and I look at my watch - 11.30am?? How did that happen so quickly? The front of the long white nightie's s a mess - covered in dirt, twigs, and scrunched up leaves, while the fluffy pink dressing gown is elegantly draped over the empty comfy breakfast chair!
Staring, is actually time well spent, because that's often when the penny drops about what's wrong and what's right with the garden. Are those plants which were moved in the spring doing as well as they should, and do they actually work with the rest of the plants and the garden generally? What plants should I transplant in the autumn and what is allowed to stay? Questions, questions, questions and it's looking for those elusive answers which makes gardening so addicitive. Then suddenly it IS Autumn! Well it feels like it in the mornings when there is a definite chill in the air. I draw the pink dressing gown tighter around me as the mornings are no longer quite so balmy. And there are seed-heads amongst the Michelmas daisies!
6 Comments
23/3/2021 08:52:27 pm
Love this can just see you so absorbed, and it is suddenly lunchtime!
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Penny Zino
29/3/2021 02:13:49 pm
Probably you're not that much different Penny! We forget about all else when the garden grabs you!
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Henrietta
24/3/2021 10:46:50 am
What a vision! And pink suits you Robyn.
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Henrietta
29/3/2021 02:16:25 pm
I don't know about me Henri - but trying to make the garden the vision - the creative thing grabs you eh?
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Helen
29/3/2021 11:16:29 am
Just love this.... so true! And so much more when one has been away for a week, garden tour comes before unpacking the suitcase! :)
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Helen
29/3/2021 02:18:53 pm
Yep - spot on Helen! Can't wait to see how the garden has fared - something special might have decided to flower while you're away!
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