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Tree surgery
Well, you could call it that, or you could just come straight out with it and call it being harsh to an overgrown buddleia with a pair of secateurs and a tenon saw.1
I just hope the bin men will be collecting the green wheelie bins tomorrow, as ours is now overflowing with buddleia and there’s still over half of it lying on the lawn to go in yet.
It’s been annoying me all summer, the buddleia, blocking out the sunlight in the evenings from our garden, and growing over the wall so you you have to duck down to avoid it every time you go out. I waited till now because I heard that butterflies love it (hence its alternative name, butterfly bush), and so, as I also heard, as butterflies are becoming rare due to their habitat being destroyed, I waited till most of the (purple) flowers had turned brown. It seemed to attract more bumble bees than butterflies if you ask me, but there you go. There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that it will grow back in abundance when it gets back into growing season again, which will be probably be overnight. They’re not ones for slow growing, these things. There’s another one, outside the window - blocking the bottom of the window - which I attacked with secateurs a couple of months ago, which is now doing a repeat. When I’ve disposed of all the tree, this bush buddleia will be next. Oh yes.
1 Not the best use of a tenon saw, admittedly, but it seemed to do the trick. My other saw, just a normal saw, was probably too long for the job.
- Update on Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 14:03:
The bin men did empty the green wheelie bins this morning, so I started hacking up the buddleia branches that were littering the lawn. I’ve not completed this yet, though, because I was halted by the site of an evil eight-legged monster. It equals total terror to an arachnophobe like me. Anyway, I hope it’s going to go away somewhere that I’m not. It’s horrible and it’s wrecked my plans for the afternoon. I’m all out of kilter now. Too scared to go back into the garden, which is irritating at best.
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