Went out to the lottie to bundle up prunings and take them to the waste sorting point, take our tea and bikkies in the sun and have a look-around at the damage from the wind storms. Lets take a look, we shall begin close at home with the gardener across from me and up the way two gardens. The roof blew off and is lying in the garden next to him. You can just see blond wood of the inside of the roof there on the ground. Then on my side of the path, two gardens up (across from the roofless house above), the lady’s little clematis frame now lists thanks to the wind. In a completely different area of our complex the whole house was destroyed. Well, it was nice to be in the garden but there was quite a bit of damage. We decided to treat ourselves and took the first three daff stems home for some colour in the house. No daffs are in bloom yet in the lottie, but our selected stems burst into bloom the next day. After tea we loaded all our twigs and deadwood into the auto and headed off to the collection point.
I hope your neighbours will be able to repair the damage in time for the growing season. It must have been such a shock to them seeing the destruction caused by the weather. Thankfully I'm glad to say that our garden suffered very little damage unlike you lottie complex.
The poor people, how awful this must be for them. Is there any insurance on the lottie gardens or will they have to cover the repair cost themselves? Lovely daffs! Ours are just small, green tips just above the soil yet.
Progress in the neighbour’s garden: The roof is back on. Eileen—Now some sort of roof covering needs to be placed. They really were shocked at the power of Nature. Perhaps this weekend work will continue. Droopy—insurance is available and some have it and others do not. I do not know about the neighbour man. I was very surprised that our greenhouse did not lose any panes, but we had openings in the glass so that the pressure would not build up. Glad you like the daffs. They really are beauties.
They look like such tidy gardens, other than the storm damage. The damage is frustrating and sad, but I try to be philosophical about these things.
I am glad to hear that you find the gardens tidy. Not many folks have begun with working on their gardens yet, so what you see is from the fall. I’ll bet they would be proud to hear your compliment.
