One of the things about trying to garden in a different way, is that I sometimes don’t have anything to do. Not that my garden is finished – it’s still a mess – but that if I am trying to let nature do more, then I need to do less. For ex, usually this time of year, I would clear up and cut back, but I am trying to let things die and rot back into the soil.

Today everyone was driving me nuts and I wanted to do some soothing gardening. But I couldn’t find anything to do. Then I turned to the fuschia, as I often do, because you can hack great bits off it with impunity and really no result.

As previously discussed, the fuschia needs chopping because it’s too big and not actually a tree and always trying to be a bush. Ilove it when I cut it’s shape clearly. I’m going to go back and cut more later and I’m thinking about turning it into one of those pom-pom trees! I think I need to learn more about pruning.

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Also as previously discussed, the fuschia is killing the pond. Today I took out a ton of old rotting leaves and disturbed a very cross looking frog. It seems a shame to have got the pond properly done with bricks and tadpoles into maturity and let the bushy tree kill it off.