Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Sunflower destruction
That time of year again when just as our sunflowers come into glorious bloom, thieves and vandals come and destroy them.
My beautiful sunflower IN MY FRONT GARDEN was torn down and the head removed overnight.
Clearly I am cursing them and their descendants in perpetuity and fantasising medieval style punishments on the off-chance I could have caught them. Let's just say, don't get on my wrong side today...
So if you are one of those lovely folk who grow sunflowers for all to see, be aware that they could be targeted. The price some of us pay for refusing to lose our front gardens to wheelie bins is that from time to time, we lose some of our precious blooms. But it always hurts to lose a sunflower...takes so bloody long to grow them.
And damn them, I won't give up. I'll just grow more next year. a whole bloody row of them (nearer to the house though).
Consoling words and offers of tea and sympathy appreciated
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Sending many consoling thoughts from the next road. A pox on all of them.
On a more positive note, a couple more tree pits have been planted up on Seymour. Thank you mystery gardeners for your generosity.
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Permalink Reply by Kimberley on
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Sorry to hear about your sun flower and front garden woes. I fully sympathize with you as we have been repeatedly targeted by vandals too, to the extent where we had to strip the garden down completely, but then I discovered that Flower Magic stuff, sprinkled it all over the garden and now I have a beautiful flower meadow that can't be destroyed or vandalised! Its been a perfect solution, the garden looks beautiful again and it was so cheap that if anyone actually did manage to vandalize it, we can easily do it again, and for under a tenner!
Alternatively, if vandalism is a real problem try putting other plants in the garden, ones your happy to be vandalised, and then strategically place a covert cttv somewhere, if its the same person deliberately targeting your garden, then evidence like that might nip it in the bud (No pun intended!)
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Thanks Kimberley.
Vandalism isn't a huge problem although theft of blooms is. Most of what I grow is vandal proof or even thrives on a bit of 'pruning' like lavender and sage.
My weakness is growing sunflowers which do brilliantly in my front garden but, of course, are a magnet to the vandal. I'll try the smaller multi-headed ones again and maybe try big pots nearer the house. These were a particular triumph as the seed was very old and I hadn't expected them to be so magnificent. But yes, outgarden the beggars. We can't let 'em win.
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Permalink Reply by tulips on
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Wow what an amazing sunflower! What a shame that's happened. Yes don't give up, the more pretty front gardens the better!
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Permalink Reply by sally mustoe on
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my 5year old granddaughter was growing a sunflower from school but asked me to take care of it while they were in Cornwall it did grow satisfactorily for a few days then my 'vandal'- a pretty black and yellow spider- attacked it I've propped its head up (the sunflower, not the spider) but several leaves are bitten and blackened consolation is the most beautiful round web hanging over the flowerhead from the verandah of the flat above
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Permalink Reply by Sharon on
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That's rubbish liz! You have the best attitude though, more next year! An update on my mini Gourrilla gardening project is that the well meaning gardening contractors (can't remember the name) dug up a bed of wild flowers before they peaked, thinking they were weeds! More training needed perhaps. Another two beds continue to flourish.
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Liz that sucks. We had contract gardeners in last week who completely scythed down our naturally seeded wild woodland meadow to the bare earth. A whole season of careful cultivation gone in a few minutes. I couldn't get angry AT them because they thought that the wild flowers were 'Weeds' and were genuinely trying to help. Sometimes gardeners have to absorb deep misery so it's good to talk to other like minded gardeners to 'unload'. Let's keep our chins up.
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Thank you fellow gardeners for your sympathy. Something about gardening makes people kind, I believe...or maybe it's the kind people who garden :)
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