No rehearsals!
It's an absolutely beautiful morning, and I don't have any rehearsals for anything! Yeay! The creative mind can be totally concentrated on the garden. So far I've done my piano practice (just for me) and weeded for an hour in the Driveway Garden.
After this coffee (which is delicious) I'll return to the garden. Maybe more weeding? Actually, more important time-wise is to trim the Miscanthus zebrinus grasses, before the new shoots get too big.
New Blue Irises
Monday 21st October
The nice thing about having no rehearsals is that I can float from this to that without running out of time. And if I stop concentrating, the only thing I let down is the Miscanthus zebrinus.
Lunchtime...
I've done another short weeding session (yet more annual seedling grasses), and now am off to trim the Miscanthus. If I get too hot I'll go into the water race.
Much later...
Oops. I went into the water instead, and cleaned up Ferns, Phormiums and Carexes from the banks. Worked away for three hours slicing and chopping, just throwing all the mess onto the back lawn. Most of it can be burnt, but the Phormium leaves will need to go in the bin.
The Water Race
Slunk inside without cleaning up - too hot and tired. So I have let the Miscanthus zebrinusses (?) down after all.
Purple Rhododendron
Tuesday 22nd October
Issues with my dogs - Pebbles is being nasty to Winnie, who is on pain relief for really bad arthritis. Picking on the vulnerable dog - such a bad attitude!
Issues with my garden...
Issues with my garden - I MUST collect all yesterday's mess, throw it on the bonfire, and burn it. I MUST trim the Miscanthus grasses.
I also have a lot of dead wood around the garden to trim - a Pittosporum in the Shrubbery, dead rose canes on Fruhlingsgold. Then the hanging pieces of dried Wattle - at least I should try to start processing them.
And the heap of nasty rose canes in the orchard - how to move them to the bonfire? Drag them on a tarpaulin? Aargh!
So what's my issue? There's nothing up there that a little hard work won't fix. Oops. I just don't feel like doing any of it! Will sun-block my face and find my hat. And then I will behave. Needs must.
Late lunchtime...
I kept on working. Could have easily wandered off to sit under a tree with a book (not that that would be wrong). Two Miscanthus grasses down, mess cleaned up. I've taken more photographs - roses, roses, and more early roses. So beautiful!
Mme Alfred Carriere
Rose report...
Madame Alfred Carriere, recently identified as the unknown climbing rose on the house-side arch, is flowering. Yeay! And many other roses are just starting.
Much later...
When I got home from doing the 'ballet run' (not my own), quick as a flash I changed back into gardening gear and lit the bonfire. Dragged some mess through the gate from the orchard, also added to the flammability (think it's a proper word) with some dry wattle branches. Whoosh! A great end to a great day.