Brave or bonkers?
Brave or bonkers?
Posted on 30 Aug, 2008 9 comments
I thought I’d give you all a good laugh.
In June I agreed that my local gardening club, who are a lovely bunch of people, can come and visit our garden this coming Friday as one of 2 or 3 planned to be open on the same evening.
Well, I had started my new job, just, by then, but did my usual of thinking I’ll have enough time to do a million jobs by September, tidying up the garden, and making it a bit more presentable. Hm.
The thing is, the reason I finally decided to say yes and invite them was that the club secretary had a terrible job persuading anyone else to agree – I’ve not been going to their meetings for long. She said that people always say ooh, mine’s not good enough/spectacular enough/finished (!!) or whatever. Yeah right. That was of course my reaction exactly!
I’m sort of on a drive against the must-be-perfect kind of approach, because every garden is so individual and different, and that’s the lovely thing. At this phase in our lives, it has to be “imperfect” because all the family use it and play in it.
Now I have to put my money where my mouth is, swallow my pride etc. Weeds and all, that’s me.
I’ll let you know how it goes! Wish me luck.
At least I know I can always give them good scones.
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good for you, I dont think there is such a thing as a perfect garden. mine is half garden half building site but i still get lots of compliments on the work i've done and the plants i've grown. good luck on your big day, hope you shame the rest into opening thier gardens
30 Aug, 2008
good on you Weeding, dont worry too much , i bet it will turn out to be a good day
30 Aug, 2008
Tell them it,s the latest fashion in gardening , didn,t they see it at Chelsea
30 Aug, 2008
i'm opening my garden to the public on13th september. you have my deepest sympathy! i've done it before and it does usualy go well. on open days weeds become wild flowers that attract wildlife!!!
30 Aug, 2008
We ALL wish you good luck, Weeding. I'm quite sure that all will be well. They'll admire you for being brave and your garden too, for all you've achieved.. Betcha!!!
30 Aug, 2008
Good luck Weeding. Hope it all goes well for you. Scones in the garden - that sounds good enough for me !
All the best, Hywel.
31 Aug, 2008
When your guests come to see your garden and if you still have weeds, just tell them that your working on cross pollinating weeds to see if you can come up with some new ones :)
31 Aug, 2008
To finish off this slightly panicky blog: I've been granted a reprieve cos one of the other open-gardeners says Friday's forecast in the UK is really terrible, torrential rain and storms, so she voted for a new date.
So I'll have to let you know how it went, once it's been and gorn.
Hi-ho, hi-ho... as the 7 shorties said.
Oh no, garden gnomes. Argh, feel another blog theme coming on.
TTFN. GG.
3 Sep, 2008
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LoL!, Good for you Weeding, you are brave to overcome the feeling that the garden "isnt ready yet" ...a garden is a work in progress meant to be enjoyed and used...if we wait till its "perfect" we miss the joy of sharing our journey and isnt it lovely that you will take some time out to pause with friends and smell the roses!
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