How green is our valley, here is mid-Wales - Tuesday, 27th August 2013

I've been gardening again, and this time in a rather over-grown space, which has blossomed independently, and where the weeds have gained the upper hand!!

Not expecting this opportunity, I arrived without gloves or secateurs of my own but, luckily, our holiday host was able to supply the goods and away I went.

Up at 6.15am and the sun rise is looking good; and the overwhelming impact of huge bushes, massive apple trees, long grass and choked flower-beds, add a sense of drama and urgency to the occasion, and it all seems rather fun.  I may change my mind about that later on - we'll see!!!

There is so much to do, with a wide variety of chores to be tackled, it simply doesn't matter much where I start,  for I'm bound to be doing a bit of everything before too long, which means I'll have to do my less-favourite chores, as well as the ones I really love doing!

I was just about to attack the rambling rose cascading over the garden door and kitchen window, which was all encased in scaffolding for the roof work currently being done, when the dear SO grabbed the secateurs, hoisted himself up to the scaffolding, and began snipping away; and I was soon ankle-deep in sprays and stems, suckers and twigs, and the thorns on the suckers were enormous.

Much later, the thorns on the Blackthorn bushes were much more vicious and one even penetrated the thickness of my gloves; that thorn took much effort to remove!

Within a short space of time, a great mound of prunings were piled up and we could see the bricks again, and the three remaining blossoms, previously hidden behind a knot of massed greenness!

I then moved on to the bed of Japanese Anemones, a cloud of pale pink blossoms and lots of nice fat buds, aching to burst.  The bed was choked with dandelions and nettles and grasses and once these were removed, the blooms regained their prominence against the darkness of cottage stone walls.

I collected all the prunings together and moved them onto the waiting compostable area, and went off to make us all a cup of tea.

And it was still not lunch time - times goes by quickly when you're having fun, hey?

Toodle oo!

Daisy

Alice walked me up to this lovely spot once we'd done-finished in the garden for the day!!!