Purple wellies tiny steps.

Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 5, 2013 6:28:57 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Mar 5, 2013 6:28:57 GMT Where's that, Moonlight? Is it part of your garden?

sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 5, 2013 13:41:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Mar 5, 2013 13:41:09 GMT Want to borrow my pole cutters? ;D
	I'll get around to it eventually

steve Global Moderator From Sunny Ilkeston Posts: 6,710	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 11, 2013 12:38:53 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steve on Mar 11, 2013 12:38:53 GMT Where's Moony gone? I need the next instalment of what the giant hedge is and where it is and stuff?
	Growing exotically

Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 11, 2013 13:35:54 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Mar 11, 2013 13:35:54 GMT Obviously done a 'moonight flit' Steve! ;D

steve Global Moderator From Sunny Ilkeston Posts: 6,710	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 11, 2013 16:34:25 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steve on Mar 11, 2013 16:34:25 GMT I do hope that hedge hasn't swallowed them all up!
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Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 11, 2013 16:49:20 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Mar 11, 2013 16:49:20 GMT Hedges can be dangerous things!

sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 11, 2013 20:26:58 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Mar 11, 2013 20:26:58 GMT Naturally moonlight wont be around. It is new moon tonight and therefore not visible.
	I'll get around to it eventually

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 11, 2013 21:36:18 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Mar 11, 2013 21:36:18 GMT Mar 11, 2013 20:26:58 GMT sweetpea said: Naturally moonlight wont be around. It is new moon tonight and therefore not visible. erm, I'll do a proper update later. Just too long for a quick update.

steve Global Moderator From Sunny Ilkeston Posts: 6,710	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 11, 2013 22:01:10 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steve on Mar 11, 2013 22:01:10 GMT Yay!
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Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 11, 2013 23:39:12 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Mar 11, 2013 23:39:12 GMT

erm, sorry for lack of saga updates. I just got overwhelmed with the whole should I cut things back or not. I thought that I was timing it right about waiting for the gap between leaving the wildlife winter protection and the commencement of spring and of course nesting. I don't think that I can cope with waiting until Autumn before trying to rescue my garden from the Triffids above. It blocks so much light and is totally disheartening, it makes me not want to be out in the garden because it is depressing which is why our garden has been neglected.

Anyway enough of the

reading Garden Friends and knowing how my Dad managed to

fight back and go back to his dahlias, made me feel empowered to fight back for my garden.

Diary of a bizarre erratic gardener.

Since I have discovered this site I've done a lot of thinking. Mulling over things that have happened in recent past and my childhood memories. I've been dreaming, hoping and generally getting too excited about the year ahead, hopes and possibilities.

Not sure if I should confess my sins in the gardening department but suffice to say that when my daughter asked me what my New Years Resolution would be I told her:
To try and grow more 'plant' plants than weeds this year. With emphasis on the word try.

What I don't want to do is to 'mean well'. Lots of ideas and good intentions and nothing planted. I want to achieve, have some sort of personal pride in my garden and no longer be embarrassed. Anything that I plant and it grows will be something of pride and to me, will be a success (even if it was one thing)

I put the photo up because it is the easiest way of describing my situation than trying to find the words but I am embarrassed about it or I would have put it up ages ago. My garden has quite a lot of potential and I want it to blossom into tiny steps toward what it can be.

Pirate Yellow Wellies really upset me about cutting it back but I have to (or I may as well concrete the lot over nb I did not say that to her). I don't know where the birds nests are and I certainly would not deliberately kill any bird intentionally (I'd be a pretty rubbish vegetarian if I did) but I do need to cut plants back.
I've got loads of news and updates but I didn't know where to start and like I said felt a bit overwhelmed

because I need to move forward on this garden tiny steps forward but some of those must include cutting back. I need a blank canvas for all the plants that I want to try and grow (that I still have to decide where to put) but most of all I need light.
Thank you Geranium, Steve and Sweetpea for making me laugh, it is good to have a bit of banter and it is good to be with friends, seriously what you all achieve and reading the posts of other Garden Friends members, inspire me to keep on having ago but don't anyone say I mean well or I'll

, I am not trying to mean well, I am trying to make a

difference to my garden and growing a bit of pride in it as well, hopefully making more tiny steps forward than stumbles backwards.

I do have quite a lot of news but it is time for bed and I had to do this post first before I did an update, better out than in

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Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 11, 2013 23:53:51 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Mar 11, 2013 23:53:51 GMT

erm, before I do head to bed, I have a confession to make.

I know that I have been guilty of mollycoddling my sweet peas in the past but they have been living outside au naturel in their pots for a while. I have moved them into my cold greenhouse today because it is snowing. Not because of the snow itself but the wind has been really bad with it. HH & girls on the way home from school kept talking about the 'blizzard' we have had today. I put them in the green house because I don't want their stems to snap. It was 2 degrees inside the greenhouse and as soon as the weather goes back to normal they will be evicted.

I promise Uncle Sweetpea

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Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 12, 2013 5:46:02 GMT

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Post by grindle on Mar 12, 2013 5:46:02 GMT

don't be disheartened Moonlight, when we moved here our garden was a rubbish tip (http://garden-friends.co.uk/index.cgi?board=blogs&action=display&thread=216&page=1) like you say tiny steps, and you will achieve your goal, far more fun than having an 'instant garden'

Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 12, 2013 7:12:53 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Mar 12, 2013 7:12:53 GMT I'm glad you're back. Moonlight - and I'm afraid gardening needs an awful lot of patience! As you say yourself - "small steps". Keep smiling!

Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,975	Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 12, 2013 9:23:57 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on Mar 12, 2013 9:23:57 GMT We all have "downers" as far as gardening is concerned.

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Purple wellies tiny steps. Mar 12, 2013 22:02:55 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Mar 12, 2013 22:02:55 GMT

Mar 12, 2013 5:46:02 GMT grindle said:

don't be disheartened Moonlight, when we moved here our garden was a rubbish tip (http://garden-friends.co.uk/index.cgi?board=blogs&action=display&thread=216&page=1) like you say tiny steps, and you will achieve your goal, far more fun than having an 'instant garden'

Thanks Grindle, I've read your thread and I think your garden is lovely. Thank you.