Julie's Boggle

We hadn’t been planning on doing any gardening this long weekend — the weather’s been grim. That was, until I happened to look out the window yesterday and discovered the creeper growing over the back wall of our back yard, had decided that it just wasn’t up to providing its own support any longer…

Now does that look like a hedge monster or what?

I do wish I had a photo of it before this incident, but for years now I’ve been a little too embarrassed over its state.

(If you want to imagine it, take the image of the green leafy stuff, that’s now trying to consume the white table, first push it back about 1.5 meters and then use it to fill in all the way up to half way through the first paragraph. That’s how tall it was.)

That’s not to say that we haven’t been trying to tame it on an annual basis, but we always had to be satisfied with the leaving the bulk of its green height behind; because (a) our ladder was too short and (b) the trunk that supported it (now lying at a rather different angle!) was approaching 10cm thick!

What it’s come down to is that I’ve been working myself up to calling a garden services company to come and apply some hard hedge discipline this summer. The only thing holding me back was the thought that I should first approach the neighbours behind us as the trunk comes from their garden and decapitating their creeper (their garden starts a meter or two above ours) without warning might seem a little rude.

After all that debating though, the weather seems to have taken matters into its own hands.

Which is great except for the clean-up job that we (Tom on his own yesterday, and both of us today) have been left to deal with.

11 bags later…

…and clearly a whole lot more still left to do.