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Planning for 2022

I”m going to use this as a list of things I”m thinking about for next year:

1. Get rid of this

If this comes up again – give it to Amie. You don’t like it, it’s massive and it doesn’t do anything. She will like it because it is architectural.

Maybe make a big effort to find out what it is and give some away.

2. Fuschia

Cut it right back. In the winter and then throughout the summer.

3. Gooseberries

Managed to keep next doors cat from sleeping in that bed. Didn’t manage anything else. Find out how to look after them better.

4. Back bed

AGAIN. needs sorting. Has needed sorting for the last 5-10 years. Now needs either to become a shady bed or a mixed one but either way, needs sorting

Next for the Fuschia…?

So as mentioned, I do love my fuschia. But it has now so big that by this time of year, it

  • turns the big sunny back bed into a shady bed
  • blocks all light to the pond and fills it with dead leaves and flowers (so it’s a bit smelly)

I don’t want this. I love the pond (more than the fuschia?). I want two sunny beds not the one which will be all I will have left. (Though maybe I don’t if it we’re in for some very hot summers?).

I am going to think about what to do about this over the winter. Here is a picture of what it looks like now – to remind me when I come to chop it in the Spring!

I think I should chop the top bits off – so it is always lower and thin it ruthlessly and regularly. Because it was never meant to be a tree – it is a bushy shrub – it will take a lot of persistent work to bring some sun and light back.

There is also a bit of it growing up the fence (it is a MONSTER) and into the sun by next door’s garden. I need to think about how could encourage this instead (it is never going to stop trying). But not until later in the year because I can’t get to the back of the garden right now because of all the spiders.….