Gardening is work as well as a an art (like it, aanchal) and a hobby. Good work 
It's also a delight. Baby song thrushes being fed outside my kitchen window this morning.
And after I took the bin down the hill to The Road, I pulled twenty sycamore seedlings out of an eighteen metre stretch of verge outside our wall on the lane. There are usually a few hundred in the garden too but they can mostly be mowed down.
nellie it is clearly a haven for wildlife.
As I haven't been up to much for a couple of years, my garden is now a jungle, although at present, quite a pretty one. My biggest bugbear is wood avens - the wild geum with a tiny yellow flower - they have just spread everywhere. Other than that, the ubiquitous equisetum (horse tail) which is so difficult to kill off. Oh and Spanish bluebells which look attractive but again are hard to kill and we don't want them to spread, do we? There's also a lot of sticky weed, goose grass or whatever you call it. I think the birds bring in the burrs or perhaps they come via my neighbour's dogs' coats. Have I adequately conveyed the extent of my problems? 
dusty
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