Good morning my lovelies !
Do you remember last year when I went on a mission to pull out all the Ivy that was coming in from my neighbours side , both under and over the fence ?
And do you remember the kind lady up in the village giving me those big Agaves ?
And do you remember how I planted one, just about here .
WELL ....something happened . My weeding this bed caused hundreds of Giant Echium seeds that had been lying dormant in the earth , to germinate !
All these from just one , long gone , two years ago I think , Giant Echium !
It is going to be fantastic when this lot begin to flower . The bees are going to be so happy !
So , getting back to the Agave .......
Yup , I had to climb in there and dig it out .
Hard work on account of all the rocks I had surrounded it with originally and I had to be careful of not treading/falling on the thousands of Giant Echium seedlings , a beautiful Melianthus major and a young Monkey Puzzle tree that are also in that bed ...and of course there were one or two blooming annoying brambles and stinging nettles , which I will be going back in for !
I got it planted and arranged some of the rocks around it again . I position them so that the rain runs away from the Agave . The rocks also soak up the warmth of the sun and pulse that warmth out at night . The roots had been struggling to get going in it's original position . Hopefully they will get away better now here .
Not totally happy with the rocks positions yet , but I am seriously aching now , so rearranging of rocks will have to wait .
What do you think ?
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