Garden fairies here!
Oh my, let us first dust off this blog and wipe away the cobwebs because Carol is lazy and hasn’t posted one single thing since her last post on the 15th of November, and now it is the 2nd of December, and here we are!
We are garden fairies, and we are beside ourselves and upside down and oh my!
No, it is not the snow that has caused us to be beside ourselves. We are garden fairies, we can handle snow.
But do you see what is missing from that picture?
The Fence!
It’s gone!
And there are strangers here putting up a new fence.
We garden fairies were not informed, consulted, sought permission from, or otherwise involved in the Complete Replacement of the Entire Privacy Fence. Though honestly, we expected this after seeing all kinds of people measuring and talking and gesturing around the fence the last few months.
But before the fence guys came and removed the fence, Carol came out and “Goodness Gracious!” is all we can say. Someone should have taken those pruners out of her hands and told her to simmer it down and stop cutting stuff back in the fall!
Granny ‘Gus’ McGarden and really, all of us garden fairies, could not believe how much stuff Carol cut back along the fence. Branches and vines, more branches, and stems! The figs weren’t safe. The smokebush trees weren’t safe. Ditto her giant panicle hydrangea. Whack, cut, chop, remove! Over and over again!
We tried once to stop Carol by hiding her pruners. Seedy and Soddy had the brilliant idea to hide those pruners in The Attic when they saw Carol go up there to look for a supposed mysterious leak. Oh, gosh, it was so easy.
But Carol had backup pruners and backup backup pruners, ad infinitum. (Don’t worry about those original pruners. Carol went back up into The Attic the next day and found them.)
Anyway…
We are garden fairies. We did what we could, but the gigantic pile of branches on the patio kept getting bigger every time we looked.
Please now take a moment and gaze upon the picture of the old fence. We loved it, we were sheltered by it, and we hope the new one is nice.
But that is not the end of this post!
Continuing on…
Do you know what else was on that pile?
Stuff from the front garden! Stuff from gardens not even near the fence! Now, we ask you, Dear Readers, for what reason would Carol need to cut back stuff which was not near or around or even close to the fence?
There was no reason. She was apparently obsessed with making that pile as big as possible because she knew, SHE KNEW, someone else was going to haul it all away. So she cut back stuff everywhere. EVERYWHERE!
It was a garden massacre!
Honoria and Hortensia said they hoped we garden fairies wouldn’t have to look at that pile of brush all winter long. And we didn’t, thank goodness, because one day last week, two guys whom we’d never seen before showed up and hauled it off. Fortunately, there were no garden fairies sleeping in that pile. We are garden fairies. We do not sleep in piles like that!
Where were we?
Oh, right. The fence.
We are garden fairies! It’s going to take us all winter and then some to recover from this experience, that is, if we decide to stay. We’ll decide when we see the new fence.
In the meantime, we have our usual wintertime activities keeping us busy. We’ll post some other day about them.
Until then, please send kind thoughts for our recovery.
Submitted by:
Violet Sweetpea May Dreams, Chief Scribe and Chief Comforter of the Distraught Garden Fairies at May Dreams Gardens
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