Today was the kind of day that a towering Taxodium distichum to shelter under would have been most welcome As my garden is the size of a pocket-handkerchief and at the moment more Gobi than swamp, it wouldn’t do. Still a modicum of shade was provided by my bloomers on the washing line. It sufficed.
It was also the culmination of the period that I like to call “waiting for signs of plant life before I hoik out the dead”. This was my last chance for any full-on home-gardening for a while. I am away at the weekend and thereafter the diary is full of fun and frolicking adventure with a fair amount of amusing anarchic work thrown in. Action needed to be taken immediately. Gaps in the beds are becoming more and more pronounced whilst waiting for the dawdlers. Quite frankly it is becoming embarrassing. Are you dead or are you alive? A sign perhaps? One little shoot would do. My patience tank had run dry. Out came the border fork, no prisoners would be taken. My limit had been reached.
Oops.
Back pedal, replant, water, cross fingers, curse my impatience.
Off The Edge Gardening 
The problem, as I have discovered from recent experience, is that one little pathetic shoot. The Dead But Not Quite Dead. The Undead. Because it leaves you with an even more difficult decision.
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Then you “accidentally” knock it off 😈
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Patience grows not in every garden ; or gardener.
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So true!
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It must be a world wide quandary. Happens here too.
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Glad to hear it, I think they might do it on purpose, just to taunt us!
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An all too familiar scenario. And there’s the other side of the coin – three plants trying to grow in the same place.
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Got one of them too! Such professionals. 🙂
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I don’t get it. Did you find that it was alive after it was cut down? If it waited this long, it probably should have come out.
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When I dug it up (it was a salvia) it was growing up from the roots. As they do. Just very slowly in this case!
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Oh, so it could have just been cut down and left as a stump. That is what the ‘oops’ is for. Sorry.
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