I started work this morning in a cheerful mood, all the large jobs in the garden are finished and I was looking forward to a fairly relaxing day consisting of a bit of hoeing and weeding, how wrong I was! It's not that the tasks that lay before us were arduous , just that there were so many of them. As soon as we set foot in the walled garden we became embroiled in another rabbit hunt as a baby one hopped out straight in front of us, all to no avail sadly, they are driving us mad by eating the tops off all the flowers, in the case of the alliums they just bite the tops off and don't even eat them just to spite us! Next was dahlia duty, the cut flower border had to be staked and each plant tied in before we get any more blowy weather which can flatten them to the point of no return. Then pruning, for me the shrubby lilacs and poor Alyson got the small box hedging around the circular garden, that took the rest of the afternoon as there were so many clippings to tidy up. We didn't even start on the hedge around the herb garden (guess that's my job on Monday then) or on the aqueligias to be dead headed so we don't have a million hybrids springing up every where. At exactly which point are we going to be able to sit back and enjoy our handy work as all the books and magazines tell you to do in summer? I can answer that one, NEVER, a gardeners work is never done but we all love it anyway!"Ah summer-what power you have to make us suffer and like it"
Russell Baker
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