My first August List...

Here is my first August Cleaning Up List, very scary, very detailed. All I'm doing in the garden at the moment is 'cleaning up'. It would be nicer to be planting up colourful pots of polyanthus, yes?

First August Cleaning Up List

  1. Clean out the waterside Hen House Garden. Collect up and carry out all the gum bark and leaf mess.
  2. Prune straggly Pittosporums.
  3. Tidy up the Renga Renga.
  4. Dig out Carexes from water's edge.
  5. Clear all the paths.
  6. Dig out Gunnera. Plant a green species Phormium in its place.

If I do all of this cheerfully, without moaning, I am allowed to buy a tray of pretty polyanthus plants for the house patio.

Saturday August 1st

Two possible problems : it's only seven degrees Celsius out there, and I had my dodgy-tooth dental surgery 24 hours ago. Not sure whether to venture bravely outside or go back to bed with a book. Some choice!

Please do not fall down!
The Last Wattle Standing

But one writes a list for a reason, right? So the items can be ticked off carefully and methodically, one by one, right? Faithfully complete all tasks on the first list and then the rest will follow, yes?

I owe it to the list-writer (me) to at least try. And I need to take a photo of the lone surviving Wattle tree in the Wattle Woods. It's in full bright yellow flower.

Garden or bed?

That's settled then. Garden or bed - I choose garden.

Just starting to flower.
Jurys Yellow Camellia

Four hours later...

Eek! I got side-tracked. Took two bags of horse manure over to the Rhododendrons in the Dog-Path Garden, spread them out and then looked down. Aargh! The garden surface seemed to be covered in ivy. Ivy? What? When? How?

Naturally I stopped then and there and removed it. Ended up taking four barrowloads to the bonfire, adding dry Gunnera leaves from under the hedge. Collected lots of armfuls of gum bark from the Hen House Garden - this, at least, was on my list. Then I lit the fire. Smoky smoky, oops.

I don't understand how the ivy arrived and then became so 'coversome' (does that make sense?), without me even noticing. I should wear my spectacles when walking round the garden?

The list waits...

So the list waits for another day. No polyanthus until it's completed.

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