14th
January 2006
I've
had landscape contractors crawling over the garden this
last week, ready to put in tenders. I really really hope
I can get this moving soon. I've ordered over 10,000 bulbs,
numerous peonies and clematis, a few score bay trees (to
use as a hedge) and I just don't want to even want to think
of potting all these through winter.
I
am having a six foot fence put in along the historic hawthorn
hedge to keep out the dratted dog at back. This dog has
given me so much aggravation ... well, its owner has. She's
a perpetual hand wringer. Can't do anything about anything,
let alone the dog which she claims in untrainable. God alone
knows how she manages to draw breath. I thought that might
have been too difficult for her, too.
My
gardener, the fearless D'Wayne (not a hand wringer),
cut a swathe through the jungle behind the walnut tree yesterday
- so now I can see some of the space there. He also cut
the weeds which masquerade as lawn - suddenly I have space
again! Just being able to see space again is incredible
- and now I have a rela idea of the space available once
the jungle behind the walnut tree comes down.
22nd
January 2006:
Very
hot today - to reach 37 Celsius, which is a bit hard to
bear for Hobart. So have shut myself inside a cool house
and am fiddling with web pages. I have added a link to a
current weather page to this page and to the front page.
I
have settled on a landscape contractor, and hopefully work
shall begin by late February.
Last
week I had a very tall security fence installed along the
back of the property to keep out the invading damned dog.
At last I have a secure garden and my cats are safe from
the beastly thing. If i can keep my bcats from roaming,
I can't see why she can't keep heer dog from roaming.
23rd
January 2006:
In
the end it reached 40C, which was almost unbearable. Thank
god I didn't have a garden yet to survive it! (But the weeds
coped very well.)
My
sister will be down soon and we are off out and about around
Tasmania for a week. I wonder what I will see to inspire
me in the garden?
