Gardening

I actually wrote this post last September but never managed to upload it... Oh dear...


I've taken up a new sport. Every morning I go out into my garden looking for slugs, then depending on my mood the unfortunate invertebrates either get the chop from the trowel or flung over the fence into the footpath behind my garden (and hope there's noone walking past at the time!).

The reason for the new sport is that I'm getting my garden in order. The grass has been mown and the hedges trimmed back as much as I can - the laurel is too tall for me to reach properly without help. I've been visiting garden centres and the Shrewsbury Flower Show as well to get ideas, and have now got a collection of plants to go in.

The first things to go in were a climbing rose (Golden Showers) and lavender along the north side of the garden by the shed. The day after the rose went in I popped outside to find a large slug nestled in one of the flowers. He was evicted from the bloom very quickly! Since then I've been going out every morning to sort out the slimy invaders - any that are too close to the flower bed get dealt with.

Other plants I've got lined up are four heathers of various colours and types and a cactus, whose name I can't remember but which looks a bit like an artichoke and has lovely yellow/pink flowers, for the rockery.

One more has already gone in, and that's another rose - a bush this time - called Jubilee Celebration which is pinky yellow and looks and smells lovely.

Next step is to dig out a post that's in the middle of where I want to put the rockery...