The weeds in pictures

Here's the pictorial version of the weeding I’ve been banging on about intermittently all summer.

This is the bit I’ve largely done.  It looks a bit of a wasteland.  Well, it is a bit of a wasteland.  Not all my fault.  A lot of it was in the shade of the old horse chestnut tree and there never was much growing under there.  But it’s clear in my ground elder obsession I must have removed rather a lot of good stuff too.

The bit I didn’t get to yet looks great.  Look at all that purple.  And all those weeds.

The big green mound is a miniature mulberry.  It’s been trained into that shape – makes it virtually impossible to pick the mulberries, but it looks good.

I read somewhere that nasturtiums outgrow the ground elder and as I also read that they are one-year-wonders I thought they’d be perfect to outwit the elder.  They haven’t stopped the elder, but the girls had fun planting and they distract the eye from all the nettles and thistles that have leapt in to fill the gaps left by the elder.  Of course, I didn’t realise there was a purple theme when we planted them.  They’re very cheerful though… I say they, I mean it is very cheerful… only one has flowered.