Tuesday 3 May 2016

A Waste Of Space

The week began well with the arrival of Will and Kate-our Will and Kate not the pair who recently visited India. In fact our Kate has been to India but oddly no press coverage is available.

They looked tired; being young executives in an oil town is no fun these days.

I forced them down to the beach but they are prairie kids and the pull of the sea is not in their blood. Unlike moi whose first breath inhaled sea air. They complied to humour me.

I let them have a good rest for four days and then got out the work clothes.



This laurel hedge bothers me, it looks out of place in a woodland garden. Laurel is next to impossible to remove without great effort and expense. Will gave it a severe pruning.

there is an even longer one which we will save for the next set of visitors
I plan to plant silver lace vine at intervals along its length and hope it swallows up the hedge; maybe some honeysuckle for good measure. I want that thing to disappear.

silver lace vine-grows up to 6ft in a season
W and K left on Saturday. Fortunately the garden club plant sale was the following day so I had to buck up. The members out did themselves with donated plants.

about half of the donated plants

This was one end of the curling club, the other walls were packed with individual growers selling their wares. 10% of their gross is donated to the club which, added to club sales, makes a tidy sum to pay for all sorts of garden related good works. I rather overdid it on purchases.

Finally, a word to the young woman in the line up outside the building. Having a full out tantrum when asked to move up, so those further back did not have to stand in the road, was unbecoming. I understand keeping your spot in the sun was far more important to you than ensuring the safety of a large number of people, trapped in the middle of the road, with traffic coming towards them around a blind corner. To then scream at the group of elderly and sweet natured people who moved up into the space you created by not moving, and calling them rude and ignorant, was quite the scene. Everyone around you had a good laugh at your expense-did you notice? Our town is small, we know where you work, your organisation relies on goodwill. I doubt any of your audience from Sunday will be popping in anytime soon.

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  1. A plant sale--what fun. And what a shame the lady (and I am using the term loosely!) had to show her lack of manners. I would have given her a word or two.

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    1. I was tempted but there would have been no listening to reason.

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  2. Will and Kate's visit came just at the right time for you. Cleaning up gardens is a big job and extra hands are always welcome.

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    1. I think our number of visitors may decrease if word gets out about the chores.

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  3. We have someone coming to trim the laurel hedge here soon. It is enormous, but I will keep it as it provides the privacy that we came to take for granted when we lived in the country. Congratulations on the great plant sale. I have such a hard time holding back when there is such choice!
    I hope enough people read your post that the young woman in question will become aware that people noticed her - and not in a good way!!

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    1. I have no discipline where plant sales are concerned. Then I pay for it the next day getting them all out of their pots and into their new homes.

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  4. Susan, I hope you are able to tame your hedge. The silver lace vine looks very pretty! I'm happy to see so many plants at the sale. Happy Spring!

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    1. Thanks, Donna. It has been a busy and unusually hot Spring.

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  5. I now know to bring Kevlar elbow gloves on a visit. Unfortunately, there are so many people who are entirely self-absorbed, consumed and focused. That is an amazing array of plants! I hate to tell you what our plant sale benefit looked like.

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    1. I obviously had a "pick a fight with me" aura. Later that day, completely minding my own business, someone gave me a tongue lashing regarding the length of the cash lines. I was on clean up crew for gnat's sake-how much less power can one have?

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  6. I like the idea of using vine to cover the hedge....I bet honeysuckle will look wonderful.

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    1. Digging the holes is going to be a challenge!

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  7. I really wanted to go to the plant sale but we were out of town (again). We get home tomorrow so I'm anxious to see what has sprouted in my absence and if my tomatoes survived. Two of the three plants had yellow splotches on the leaves the day before I left. - Margy

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    1. Margy, you mean you are not organising your entire life around the plant sale.

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  8. What goes around comes around. That twit will get her due for sure. So glad your kids were able to visit!

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    1. My husband was a little worried I had caused the fracas. What an earth would make him think that-smile/wink?

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