This week on Tuesday Treasures, I am featuring our VERY shaggy, rather dishevelled garden. Now I’m suffering from Long Covid, Himself – who was also badly smitten by the illness – now has to do all the cooking, cleaning and gardening, in addition to taking care of me and holding down a full-time job. Therefore the gardening has been a tad neglected… However, he has been weeding, if not cutting back or mowing – and I think the effect is really rather lovely. Now we just need a run of hot weather to be able to sit out in the sunshine and enjoy it.
The fallen echium is the result of a violent storm we had a couple of weeks ago. In all the time I’ve been growing echiums in the garden, since 2005, it’s the first time one has been blown over, but it’s still alive and flowering, so my instinct is to leave it there until the bees stop coming to it.
Brainfluff 
Garden looks beautiful even if it is a bit wild – I hope you get on the road to recovery soon x
Thank you, Jules. I appreciate your good wishes:)).
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen echium before- what an impressive plant! Strong willed, too, as it’s knocked down and keeps flowering (there’s a moral in there… :)) All of that green and flowering really is lovely. I’m so sorry to hear you’ve been ill, though. Praying that it blows over quickly.
Thank you, Anne. I’ve been ill since March, when we both got Covid, and although I am getting a bit better, it’s very, very slow…
And you’re right about echiums being strong-willed plants – I saw them in Cornwall and fell in love with them. So I bought two and planted them in the garden – and as long as we have a reasonably mild winter, they tend to come up most years.
I personally love wild gardens, and yours is beautiful. Curses on Long Covid, hang in there, Sarah❤
Thank you, Tammy. I, too, am cursing Long Covid… rather colourfully at times, if I’m honest.
Your garden is not disheveled, but rather sporting a delightfully riotous affirmation of life! 🙂
Thank you for your words of comfort, Maddalena. And I find ‘riotous affirmation of life’ so much more uplifting than, ‘weed infested’:)))
It’s just a matter of perspective, after all… 😉
It’s a process to get a yard where you want it. It seems like regular tasks are needed and I try to incorporate them into my routine. It’s better now that my back/hip is better. I love it now and we just did sod over the last week for the areas which were totally weeds. Now it needs lots of watering. Your yard has plenty of beauty and will come through.
I think people aren’t being careful enough about COVID. Vaccinated people can get it just not likely to need hospitalization or to die. But they could have a mild or asymptomatic case and since most have given up masks then are infecting the unvaccinated and children. And what about those under 12 who can’t get vaccinated? We still wear masks. I hope you are feeling much better very soon.
You make some very good points, Anne. I’m glad that most of the folks in the town where I shop still wear masks – even on the pavement. And, of course, I also do so…
As for the garden, as you say, there is an underlying structure – though it has got a bit out of hand! But Himself can only do so much and right now I can’t do anything at all. So I am determined to celebrate the loveliness of the plants giving a summer show:).
The garden is lovely, just as it is. I’m waiting for the day, however, that you write about feeling back to normal…take care!
Thank you for your kind sympathy, Becky. I’m looking forward to the day when I can write about feeling back to normal, too…
What a variety of plants in that garden!
Thank you, Mogsy:)). When we moved in, there were three plants – a rose bush, a conifer and a spotted laurel…
Beautiful garden. I wish mine looked half that good. Sending hugs on the illness. I have lupus, so I know what long term illness is like. It isn’t fun. I hope the doctors can find something that will help you at some point.
Melanie @ Books of My Heart
Thank you Melanie – I’m so very sorry about you having lupus. I know just what a terribly painful illness it is. I’m hoping that so long as I’m sensible and get loads of rest, I will eventually recover. It’s soul sapping and worrying – but I’m very, very grateful that for the huge majority of the time, I’m not in any pain!
Boo to long Covid but glad you are resting. The garden does look beautiful. Kind of a secret garden feel to it.
Thank you, Katherine – I appreciate your kind comment regarding the garden – yes… it certainly has a wilderness feel to it, these days:)).
Your garden looks fantastic. It’s the sort of beautifully charming look that would be so difficult to recreate if you were to try. It looks gorgeous. Enjoy sitting out there.
Lynn 😀
Thank you, Lynn – what a lovely way of looking at it! I hadn’t thought of it in terms of trying to recreate the look, to be honest! But you are right… Now – we just need the sunshine!!
I think your garden looks beautiful!
More importantly, I hope you recover soon and that Himself is taking good care of YOU. ❤
Thank you for your kind good wishes – and yes, Himself is my knight on a white charger and in addition to working so hard, is also taking wonderful care of me!
I’m glad. Be well. ❤