Warning This is the time of year when one goes out into the beds and starts to cut things down. Watch your eyes when you bend over the plants. I am grateful for wearing glasses and have now only a holed eyebrow rather than a poked out eye. The support canes have eye protection caps on them as one should, but the plant stems do not. BE CAREFUL please
A timely warning Palustris and a good one. You never normally hear about this but I wonder how many A&E trips are made because of it. Quite a few I'd bet.
How right you are to warn us Eric. A few years back I used to wear my contact lenses in the garden and got poked in the eye by a forsythia shoot when I bent down to weed amongst my shrubs. It took our local hospital 2 hours (under local anaesthetic) to prise the lense carefully off my eye and I ended up having to wear an eye patch for nearly 4 weeks until the wound healed. Never seen a black eye quite like it - outside of a boxing ring!!!! I now only wear glasses to do the garden as they are so much safer. Thank you for your advice.
Too true, Eric. In the same vein - 1. Don't shred Euphorbia without a mask. 2. Do tread carefully around the Roses. Last year it took 7 damp tea-towels to stem the flow & 2 months to heal the wounds. But I saved my camera! The Rose? Jude the Obscure.
Good grief Tim what exactly did you do to yourself with your 'Jude the Obscure' - sounds really nasty!!!
Shouldn't really say it here, but maybe everyone's into Sunday lunch by now? And since you ask - thank God for the new(?) 'mepore' dressings. Both arms & one shin. Still have a 3" scar on that!! Daughter's a vegetarian & she had to drive me to Hospital. She was very brave!! The rose flourished, despite having been almost flattened. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/jude.jpg
Those Mepore dressings are really fantastic aren't they? Glad your daughter was on hand to get you to A&E. Moral of that story - never fight with a rose bush - you'll lose. BTW - Lovely rose Tim - the extra feed seems to have worked wonders.
Pain, Frank? If childbirth is 10. this was 2. But it hurt like hell!! Dressings? Other (younger) daughter next door was, until marriage, a ward Sister. She has them. Enjoy your lunch!!
