A garden update

[preface]I've arbitrarily decided to try keeping all three journals up-to-date. I expect this surge of energy & egomania to last about 3 posts, so the previous entry's warning still applies.[/preface]

This afternoon my doorbell rang. It turned out it was one of the guys who will be building the wall that's going to replace my fence. He told me that they needed to dig a trench a foot wide to pour the concrete, and therefore the plants that I'd left in (on the assurance of my association's grounds guy that I didn't need to move them) needed to be pulled out. The japanese maple. The juniper bush/tree/bonsai. The three-tiered bush. The bouganvilla. The rose bush. All needed to be pulled out. And all of my big pots were being used for all the things we'd pulled out on the Fourth.

So I had to scramble to find things (mostly big cardboard boxes) to use as temporary homes for all my favorites. I'm a little skeptical about whether they'll all survive - and since I think this wall is going to chew up more of my garden plot than the fence did, that might be just as well.

All in all, it made for a frantic & slightly depressing afternoon.