Iv'e done it, problem corner cleared!!!!

No Jen leave it alone, safety comes first, nature will gradually get rid of the remaining dead ivy and if anything happens to the cables it won't be your fault..Its a job well done, I love the photo, your boys look well contented...

Your corner looks really lovely now. I think the dogs approve too :o) You've worked hard on it. I hope you can get rid of the horsetails. They are a nuisance you don't want them spoiling the corner.
I like your new plants :)
Please be careful if you decide to climb that pole. We don't want any accidents lol ...

You ve done a wonderful job there it looks great new plants and all .

Gosh I feel exhausted just reading about it - very well done! Blackthorn and horsetail in one patch is just too much!
I had to laugh at your very appropriate typo just under the second picture - digging clearfully, lol...
Its promising to be absolutely fabulous and you'll be in the NGS book before long at this rate. I do envy you your brick wall - we haven't got a wall or a fence - you are lucky there.

Lol, I'm not that brave, Lincslass, don't plan to get too close to cables but going to ask next door shop if can put ladder their side of wall and cut a bit more down. Saying that I think this weather and wind will bring more down and it will look better.

Thank you Hywel, I am please with myself lol. Think the boys enjoyed me doing it as meant they got to play all evening in the garden but Shadow is still learning that I don't appreciate him running all over the borders playing chase with Ben :-). He is also such a mummy's boy he had to keep coming and finding me just to lay right in the way just so he is next to me. It is so hard not to put more plants in but I know that I really shouldn't to treat the horsetail.

It's nice to have canine company in the garden though :)
(or feline in my case lol)

Thank you Dawn, I keep looking at it today lol. Feels SO good knowing it will never be such a hard job :-).

Sue, lol, I've just seen it. This morning I didn't know which part of me hurt the most and didn't get to bed till late but was so excited that I had finish, this morning, I did this blog. :-). Well, whats a typo between friends lol. Thank you for your kind comment, I doubt it will ever be up to NGS standard but I'm trying, well that's what hubby says, I'm very trying :-). We love the wall, it was one of the main reason we bought this house. I have always loved the look of walled gardens. Years ago, the council wanted to make our road a main A road and previous owners tried to block it so council said they would build them a wall if they let it be passed. Since the council was building it, they allowed themselves to build it 8ft tall all around our front garden. Makes it very private and helps with the noise of the traffic. Previous owner said she hated the wall so let everything grow to cover it.

It is Hywel, I get both as Star comes out in the day but we keep her in from the evenings on. We got her from the cat protection and they ask that cats be kept in at night due to foxes and things so we do.

We got Bella from there too. She was 2 yrs old and had never been outside. She goes out now but sometimes she won't come in all night, and if I try to stop her going out she yells the place down !

That's interesting. Go for it Bella, you tell Hywel you want your own way! Our cat was about two when we got her and she had never been indoors - the cats (three or four of them)had the use of a shed in the garden. The house was an ordinary council semi and as well as two dogs, some guinea pigs that lived in the bathroom (so I was told). two dogs and three young children. They thought our cat was a male until she had a litter of kittens!! She loves being outside still, even in the rain. I've seen her sitting in the rain with her head under the hedge - she must think that if her head's dry so must the rest of her be - but she's mistaken...

They do like their own way lol Hywel. Star is so good really. We got her when she was 18 months old and she is 13 now. She had been very badly mistreated. Previous owner had mated her and she had 4 kittens. They had a little boy of 4 who then killed 1 of the Kittens and beyond help another. Star also had some teeth broken as well as her tail in trying to save them. She carried all 4 over the fence to the neighbours garden. Cat protection named her Star and we thought it just right for her. In the cage next to her were the 2 surviving.kittens but we thought everyone wants kittens so we gave her a home. 1st she had to put up with my other cat and my 2 English Springer Spaniels and now she gets to rule it over my 2 boys :-)

Sue, I will never understand how people can mistreat other people or aminals! Your cat sound funny, what with sitting in book cases and head under hedges. Star hates the rain, then she makes a noise as if telling me to stop it so she can go out :-).

How cruel some people can be ... I'm glad our cats have all found good homes :o)

I 'm not allowed to write what I think about people who can be so cruel, or ignorant in how to care for a pet once you have them, our Tipsy is too old to want to be outside much but Toffee is only 2yrs old and as with growing boys he's reached the stage whereby its sometimes a job coaxing him indoors at night, we have lost two cats in the last two years so always want him safely indoors when its dark..Mind you now Harriet is with us both cats insist on sleeping upstairs, I must be going soft in my old age because for the sake of peace and quiet, I allow them to get away with it.....

Looking good :-))

I know just what you mean Lincslass, like you am thinking the words. When Star was younger at times she didn't want to come in and have spent hours probably upsetting neighbours down south calling her name till quite late at night :-), we had a lot of foxes around us in Kent and one of my neighbours losed theirs to one. Lol Harriet sounds like she is keeping yoj busy :-).

Thank you Daylily.

Well done Jen! :)

Thank you Pamelaanne, I am still being good and not planted anymore in it. It's been hard though lol. Horsetail still coming up but a lot less then when I moved in 2 years ago but I know it will take years to get rid of it.