Why do weeds grow faster than flowers?
There is no such thing as a weed of course, only a plant in the wrong place! So
a lot of plants here have a very poor sense of place I think. Despite thick
mulching the weeds come through thick and fast. After a month of rain and now
hot sun everything is growing practically as you watch it.
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| Acanthus against the weeds |
Where we are working at the moment up at
the electric point, which is the ugliest electric point in the world, every
spare moment I get I am pulling weeds. When I come back the next day there are
a whole crop of new weeds which have grown 6” in the night it seems!
Ray has done great work strimming paths
through the undergrowth so we can get from one place to another without
struggling through waist high verdure. And this is just the beginning, there
are weeks of growth to go before it gets too hot and everything dies off.
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| I'll be sad to lose the Greek gate when it's all finished |
We are stone facing the unsightly monolith
where the electricity enters the property. The builders and electricians
responsible should be taken out and given a good talking to for providing such
a travesty. It is slow painstaking work but the steps up to it are coming on a
treat and will provide sound footing for further work. This morning when I was
pointing the paving the sage bush along side was providing aromatherapy. There
are lots of small cracks and crevices where plants will grown and soften the
whole structure in time.
Now it is darker later there is a whole
extra hour in the garden and yet more opportunity to exhaust oneself! However,
it is now warm enough for breakfast and lunch on the patio to the distant
sounds of a Greek spring (the dulcet tones of a stone pecker preparing the base
for yet another villa).
