Like Tumble-Weed,The Dead Buxus Planting was Removed. Up Dated and presented by BB

Here is a small part of one of our Fiddle Wood gardens, and they like this one are friendly to all types of wild life so we do not use insecticides that are a danger to our little friends that visit us all year round.                                              

To the left at the bottom are the remains of dead Bux, that were killed off last year and this year where upon other buxus . We left them be just in case some might recover, but now we decided to remove them in a garden tidy up.                                    

The 20 year old Bux Balls, of which their were many in our Fiddle Wood garden were killed by the             dreaded Moth Caterpillars that stripped them down to their finish.                                                            Across the St Faiths Rd, that runs heavily with all shorts of heavy traffic and zooming noisy cars, the large Bux tree's in the woodland of Old Catton, are  laced over in the cobweb of the caterpillars that will destroy them. All in all i guess in this wilderness of heavy thoughts even a moths caterpillar's must eat.                                                                                             

And so it was the work was about to start in the garden.                                            

'Leverage against the brickwork with a garden fork should help to do the trick',i said.

The place being full of roots made  it very hard indeed, so in the end they were each yanked out by share brute force! But not mine. i have the brightest mind to do such laboured things, but no longer have a good healthy body to help in any working  practical way.

 

'Great job!', I declared.  And i meant it too.

Being optimistic it is only a little space so we realise that later we can replant with other evergreen plants that Moth, does not like. So having taken cuttings off other healthy shrubs already in our other small gardens. It really will not cost us even a 'penny' to re-plant our little boarder that helps lead the way into another tiny garden of delight and charm.  For now there will be a flower bed of biannual that will flower this year given us by a nice brother in our congregation. 

It was a sad sight not viewing the wonderful Bux Balls peeking through from  the other garden,

but things happen and one must move on.                                                                                          

A few days later the bedding plants which are lazing in their large clay flowerpots began to show colour.

Whitch i found pretty cool.

Thank you for your visit,                                                                                                          

May you all have a nice safe day.  BB