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Luca's New Garden with Bridget Sudworth SHOULD DESPAIR overwhelm you when watching David Attenborough’s programmes contemplating the appalling state of our planet, then take heart from nature. Robust and allforgiving, Mother Nature never goes away even when abused. A simple example is the state of our gardens where growth may have crept out of hand but hacked down, chosen plants leap forward with great energy to fill the gaps. We removed a huge clump of over planting that contained a bush rose, a spiraea (Anthony Waterer), a Jasminum (J.Nudiflorum) with many self layered off-shoots, a volunteer ash tree, ground ivy and of course, the inevitable brambles. With roots still in place, the rose has sent up lovely fresh shoots, many small jasmine plants, apart from
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the original retained one, are now potted up for the next plant sale (whenever that may be, Covid pending), the spiraea is sending out fat little leaves and there is space for new planting. Let us hope that given a proper chance, we can repair some of the damage that is being done elsewhere in our nation to restore at least some things that mend the balance for flora and fauna. I have read that a tidy garden is perhaps not as healthy as one that has gone wild - and with winter clearing, creatures’ winter hiding places can be disturbed but once in a while it is for the benefit of all that tidying up has to take place. There has to be a limit to verdant chaos so November is the time to set things right. It’s a time of great satisfaction to find out what has been struggling below the over-growth and give things a chance to flourish; a period of discovery and recovery, if you like. Check your apple storage for the one bad one that will affect all, get any bare root transplants heeled into the veg patch or wherever there is space till you have room to plant - including those roses from suppliers, move plants that are in the wrong place after cutting off surplus growth and replant as soon as possible, continue clearing up some of your leaves to bag up (though I like to leave some drifts for the birds to check through first as they are
