Aloe striatula
Yesterday evening - I was walking round the garden .....like a teddy bear ....when I spotted these lovely Aloe flowers .Then noticed to my utmost horror all the brambles growing through it !
You see , from the distance , the lawn looks lovely, hubby just cut it . It all looks fairly tidy .
Well I pulled out a few tools and made a start .
...... very quickly realised that I needed more serious equipment ...
5.30 am - this morning - I got out there and brought in the "more serious equipment " !
The trunks of my two Trachycarpus were covered in Ivy . Here you can see I have stripped off the one at the front and you can just about see the one behind , absolutely covered in it !
The brambles were popping up everywhere , the Ivy creeping along the ground and stinging nettles coming up through it all !
Stress ! ...and in there somewhere are three Dahlias !
I needed to get on and do as much of this as I could before the sun became too hot for me .
7.10am ..... It doesn't look much different .
That was two huge wheelbarrow loads !
I still have a lot more to clear . I haven't even got as far as the Aloe yet , because the brambles coming through there are coming through from behind . So I had to seriously prune back the lovely African Bush Daisy - Euryops - I think it's called ?
I will take some cuttings though . It is a lovely thing . It's been flowering since Christmas .
It does seem to respond well to being pruned hard back every now and then . Good to keep it in a more compact shape I think .
So as for the Aloe striatula ... I will get back to weeding around it later on today , when the sun goes behind the trees and casts a nice cool shadow for me .
8.45am - brekkers
That's all fer now folks ! Stay cool and have a great day !
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Weeds just keep on coming no matter what don't they. Ivy brambles and bindweed - the thigs of the plant world.
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