Learning the hard way…

Planning has always been the main problem in the garden, well the lack of… I usually think that the small size is the problem but it’s not. Me not planning is the problem. Like with my Aquilegia vulgaris seeds I collected, “Oh, I just pour them out all over the place”, now I have Aquilegia all over the place and I’m not that found of them. There’s plenty in The Tea Corner and I feel poppies are more appropriate and besides, I like poppies a lot more.

So I am now trying to get rid of them from The Tea Corner to make room for some poppies. Perhaps I should plant the Aquilegia by the hedge? It’s just weeds there anyway and I don’t mind some flowers between the weeds… The area by the hedge is awful…

Someone said, “A gardener’s work is never done”, so true.

I have been lazy...

I feel like I’m running behind and today I really need to get something done! There is so much too do. I have a lot of seeds that I need to sow and I think I'll do that today and I have to have a look in my diary and see when I planted the dahlias last year, is it too soon?

Snow

We’ve had a really cold winter so far, and by the looks of it spring is not coming anytime soon. Thank god for all the snow! There was some digging necessary after Christmas (cat burial) and when we had shuffled all the snow away the ground was soft and just a few centimeters down there were plenty of worms wiggling around. The snow is like a thick cozy down blanket and the garden loves it, I hope the garden will also love all the water that will come in the spring. But with the cold weather we’ve been having I was worried that some things might die but the snow seems to have taken care of that problem.

I don’t feel like it…

But it is time to start sowing and look into what seeds I want this year. I’m not very inspired at all, the thought of being gawked at in the garden makes me feel like swinging a bat but maybe I’ll regret it later if I don’t sow something? But last summer I was barely in the garden at all. Not much joy in it I have to say…

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I haven’t done all that I should have done in the garden. I don’t like to spend time there now when there are people all around. Especially when it’s warm and people think it’s okay to run around in their tighty whities, ew…

The entire street is filled with cars and machines so the noise level is high too. And I get sad every time I have to look at these horribly ugly houses. Oh, one of the new houses have two trees left in their entire yard and that’s only because they are not allowed to cut it down. Then they have rolled grass, these big rolls of lawn so you have an instant green lawn which makes it look like a golf course. No bushes no nothing.

The other house seem to hate all living things and cut down their two trees (they are supposed to put back an equal tree because they were not allowed to cut it down but where will they find a 100 year old oak?) and have nothing living in their space. To cut down trees seems to be the latest thing, everyone is chopping down their trees leaving stumps, and some take away EVERYTHING, bushes, flowerbeds, everything and roll out a lawn. Soon this entire neighborhood will look like one big golf course… So so sad. I soon have to move, I just can’t stand these people. But… I don’t want to leave. It feels like I’m being chased away and that I’m giving up on my beloved home. All of these idiots flooding the place and destroying it…

Since the new trend of “lets fuck mother nature” I haven’t seen any squirrels around here, doubt I will ever see a fox here and there’s been no black or green woodpeckers… the heron has been spotted less than before.

Spring time!

Last week snowdrops started top come up and now crocus, soon daffodils and tulips! It’s raining and I have holes in my boots. I want to go outside and work, and I might just after I finish my tea. I know I’ll break all of my (crooked) nails but I don’t care, my feet are going to get wet and cold but hopefully it will be worth it.