SO - WHAT DID THROW OUT TODAY?

In this image, the rose branch decided I needed a break, and pulled off my hat to distract me!

In fact, though I did work very hard, and it was part of the MAKEOVER gift to my home, virtually every single piece of greenery and plant mater I cut back has been saved for composting, either in what I call 'wild compost' - made up of all the stuff the magazines say you should throw out so as not to contaminate your garden, and 'regular compost', made from the horticultural parts of my 'mixed gardening'.

What I mean to say is that I have no WEEDS in my garden, only either wild flowers or cultivated flowers.

Needless to say, after a few years, the balance is disturbed by the wild flowers growing faster and more abundantly than the cultivated ones. This is one of those years. The garden suffered the same kind of neglect as the house, for the same reason - time spent doing my degree.

An additional pressure is that one of the flower-beds, maybe even two, has to be reduced as we are in the process of negotiating to have external insulation installed.

So if ever I needed to apply the theory 'everything is ART', this is it.

Actually, Andy Warhol quoting Marshall McLean maintained that: Art is anything you can get away with' (lightweight discussion here)

I like aspects of Andy Warhol, especially the way he was an inveterate collector of ephemera. There were 610 boxes in storage when he died. Archivists are being given six years since 2009, to go through the boxes. They have found and average of 400 items in each.