constructive destruction

hope you feel satisfied with your hard work and worked off the mood, so different to where you lived before, you've done so much Fran , you should feel proud x

Go Girl Go Girl, lol, sounds just a bit like me that. I think probably the weather has had a lot to do with your moods Fran, it has been so horrible and all we want to do is get out there in the garden and do some work. Bit better though today, sun is coming out and clouds are whitening from dark grey now. Better weather forecast for the rest of the week. Hope you spent a good amount of energy and feel better now. :O)

lol Pam, I tend to look at how much there still is to be done - what I have done is in small bits, what needs to be done can be seen all on one go!

It is indeed so different from my previuos address! real garden with real plants - and real work to do!

Part of it is frustration, Olive - I still daren't really touch the main beds, in case I do the wrong thing to the wrong plant - and the grass is getting almost knee-high and I can't do anything baout it unless I go over it with a pair of kitchen scissors!

It was suitabley strenuous exercise, and I felt a lot better afterwards

Sounds like a good lot of work, it does you good when you can work a bad mood off. Your doing well Fran and we should be having better weather the rest of the week so keep happy.

thanks Stroller. Once I can start *doing* I'll be a lot happeier - it's hardly interactive at the moment!

I planted my toms in the grobags just now, it was hammering rain outside but summer must be on its way :0)

lol you can tell when summer arrives - they set hosepipe bans!

Well done, Fran, you're really getting stuck in. Nothing beats a good clear out :)

does feel good, Gee, working off irritation and working up a sweat - and there's a visible result at the end of it

Well done - makes me tired just reading abut it! Nice to see some flowers appearing too. Is that a little lady with a hat on hiding behind the compost bin?

It's amazing how much work we can get done when the notion takes us. I hope the wire didn't cause you to much bother. It must have been difficult for you to see.
You've made a great start. Well done.

Fran! Don't be scared to work in your garden. What's the worst that can happen if you 'do the wrong thing'? That's how we learn! I have always just got on with doing what I felt like doing. I've made some mistakes, but they rarely end in the loss of a plant. Sometimes it takes a while, but plants do recover. Enjoy your garden! Go with your gut feeling! Most of the 'rules' only give us guidelines to get the absolute best results...so if you do things a bit differently, you might not get the best, but you'll rarely have a disaster...unless you spray a lot of weed killers!! And you're far too sensible for anything like that! Lol! You've made a great job of that corner! :))

thanks, Stera. That's my Flower Lady - I found her in a charity shop before I moved. She's sharing a plinth pro tem with Emma the Fat Fairy and the Moon Hare - there's a pic of them somewhere in my pics.

I broke a pair of "cut anything" scissors, Scottish - rather, broke hte pin connecting the blades - I thought it was just stiff plastic till I looked very closely. I took up the slack and wound it round the fence post to get it out of the way.

I need to finish off the fence at the back of the shed and maybe put sometihing down to hinder weeds returning. and I need to do it while there's still some momentum left.

thanks, Karen, that's reassuring. it's not as if I don't have duplicates of small plants and shrubs - I can practice on one and see how it goes before trying it on the rest, or on one side of the bigger shrubs. i should remember the old saying, Person who never makes mistakes never achieves anything (or words to that effect). and the plants are very likely a lot tougher than I give them credit for - not going to fall over because of a "paper cut"!

lol I've killed more plants iwth kindness than anything else, but plants, like children, don't thrive on neglect, either, they both need a bit of firm guidance to grow right.