Another specimen of arrears in maintenance. Wilma had detected it already. I had seen it before with a half eye (as we say in Dutch). But last week I came to realise how serious it is (New Years Day). A good job for the Sunday. Well. It will be a good job for a couple of Sundays!
There is a fence at the back of the garden. It is not high. Made of wire-netting. and apart from that there is this green netting to keep the weeds at its place. Well. It’s holding things at its place. On both sides of the netting large bundles of rootstocks, as we know them from the jasmine. Meters and meters long and very strong (I measured lengths of up to 15 m.!). There are a lot of (interesting) shrubs along the fence. Closely packed together (needs thinning!) and the jasmine tends to climb in some of the shrubs already. And then there are roses. That makes the work such a pleasant job. I’m sorry to say that I have cut some of these roses back. They grew in the shadow.
01:00pm
I worked for two hours until now.
I’m quite sure the jasmine is Jasminum polyanthum
(see e.g. DOC – “Plant me instead” (Wellington 2005), p. 134)
Find photo’s I made in Kevin’s Bush and take some new ones.
05:00pm
Worked a third hour. Did today 10 m. of the total length of 15 of the garden. To be continued next week(end).
It was a sunny day, with thin clouds covering most of the sky in the morning. As the day went on the clouds became thinner and the sun hotter. No wind.
