Garden Waste

It was (still is) a warm, sunny, dry day. I spent hours in the garden, trying to balance tidyness against leaving space for nature, by mowing parts of the grass (and leaving other parts to grow),weeding burrs and nettles (but not wildflowers), finding places for some indoor plants to spend summer outside, and potting tomatoes to place them around the patio, until I ran out of potting soil. 

As I was finished, our neighbour got her hedge cutters out, and attacked our beech hedge and snowball bush, because they have dared to grow a few centimetres over her border. And she always plants her tomatoes exactly in the same spots along that line. 

She then chucked the waste over the hedge, so I had to pick it up and throw the flowers away. Meanwhile, the cats were hiding in the bushes on the other side of the garden, because the hedge cutter noise scares them.

Our neighbour does this every year just when the snowball is in full bloom. Can you imagine hacking back a flowering bush and make the owner throw away the pieces? I can’t.

Some people are strange.