Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category

There must be more to retirement than wandering listlessly around garden centres.  It’s difficult to find plants for a start, you first have to run the gauntlet of all the things these places sell that have nothing to do with gardening: cakes, cushions, furniture, gifts, cards and unpleasantly coloured fleeces… by the time I have got through all this merchandise I have lost the will to live and am feeling queasy from all the scented candles and potpourri.  When I finally find the plants it’s a real relief to be outside and I spend what I consider to be an outrageous amount on a variety of flowers and plants imagining they will instantly transform my garden.  However, back home when they are all in my garden (at least a week later, I’m not a keen gardener) they don’t look that amazing, just a few plants looking rather lost in a large flower bed – so then it’s back to the Garden Centre again for chipped bark to spread in the vast wasteland in between the plants to discourage the weeds, which of course always grow more vigorously than anything I plant.