June 2023
If there was a word to describe June at Crofton Garden it would be ‘control’.
We are not the most rigorous gardeners here, not by a long shot but even we can reach our limits. The starkness of the Winter garden revealed a mass of branches, climbers, shrubs that had all become a bit out of control.
You don’t really notice it when the garden is in full exuberance of Spring but when you can’t get down a certain pathway once all the foliage and growth is gone or can no longer see the shed under a mass of bare limbs, it’s probably time to do some work.
Just some of the jobs completed during June are:
- Cut back the Weeping elm so we can actually walk past it.
- Cut back the Boston ivy on the old toilet, but not too much as it seems to be holding the structure together.
- Trim the fragrant Lonicera at the side gate so you don’t lose an eye getting out.
- Tear the evil Ivy on the poor man fern
- Cut back and thin out the Roses on the archways
- Take out the large pine tree on the stone wall.
- Rescue the poor Coffin Pine in the turning circle
- Take out the sad box ball by the back door and pop in Jenny’s new Fernery stump.
And we’ve only just started really. I’m exhausted already. It’s funny how you don’t think there’s a lot of work to be done until you actually start and then they all jump out and ambush you all at once. At least the plants don’t squark at us like the birds do – gosh, just imagine the racket that would cause! I like my plants to suffer in silence thank you very much!