wont be sorry to see the back of January!

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Feeling sorry for myself. 2nd of Jan I went down with the flu and it was only really last weekend that I started to feel bright eyed and bushy tailed. Then this Monday I was putting plants in the car to take to a plant talk when I heard and felt a twang in my calf. Result I am now limping with a torn calf muscle. 2-4 weeks recovery apparently.

I am desperate to tidy the borders. The one directly under the front windows is in a very sorry state. We are having the flat roofs re-felted and scaffolding was needed. Now there is lots of bare soil intermingling with bulbs and day lilies in that bed. But guess where all the weight-bearing flat boards for the scaffolding are? Yep mainly on clumps of plants.
That went up on the 6th Jan but with the rain and storms we have had, the roofers still haven’t finished and they didn’t come yesterday when it was dry and sunny. I had hoped to get the scaffolding down by now but they may be another 2/3 weeks. The daffs that are under the boards will be really struggling now.

So I am one fed up bunny. Too cold and wet to go out on the motorbike too.

sorry for the whinge but if you cant moan to your friends who can you moan too? :o)

31 Jan, 2025
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Rose1949

I am so sorry about what has happened to you this month!
And of course you can have a moan, that's part of what we are here for.
And those builders!! I can't believe they put everything on top of your plants. I would have been out there insisting they move them.
I hope you recover soon. Things can only get better! x

31 Jan, 2025

Hywel

One always feels better after getting something off one's chest.
I'm glad you're over the flu now and hope your torn muscle will mend soon too.
Shame about your plants, I wonder if they'd have given it some thought, they might have placed the weight bearing boards in between the plants, but I know builders etc are not plant people.
Personally I always tell handymen etc to be careful of the plants. They usually listen (but give me strange looks which I totally ignore )
With some luck, if they take the scaffolding away soon, your plants and bulbs will recover.

The lengthening days may give you a boost :)

31 Jan, 2025

Meadowland

Oh dear Eileen what bad luck ,the flu and a torn tendon..and on top of that the builders !!
Like Hywel I always ask them to respect the plants if they can but sometimes they are in a rush catching up.I do get odd looks though!
What a horrid start to 2025...I do hope your tendon heals fairly quickly so you can get back to the garden.

31 Jan, 2025

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