Room Three Update

Room Three Update

It has been a while since I mentioned Room Three of The Palace and while my enthusiasm for the project hasn’t waned, the actual work has.  To be fair it wasn’t intentional, but life got in the way.  The first obstacle didn’t seem like it would cause the work to ground to a halt, but inadvertently it did.  We headed off on the ‘speaking cruise’.  Of course, I didn’t want to go on a two-week cruise around the South Pacific, but as I had to give some talks, it was technically ‘work’ so who was I to say no.  I could throw myself back into the garden once I got back.

But then there was that post travel lurgy – not the dreaded covid, but it was just as lingering and doubled the time out of the garden.  Added to that, the warm tropical weather made me soft, and I needed extra encouragement to get out into the chill of late winter, early spring.

As we moved further into spring, then the priority of the garden shifted into the edible side of things and getting the garden beds ready and sowing seeds.  I’m pretty much there with that now, but it still gets the lions share of my priority until it is all planted out and doing its thing. 

In the meantime, the best I have managed is to keep room three weed free, by sending my wee helper up there once a week with the hoe.  And that is my excuse to a lack of progress.  I do regret the lost time, but in hindsight it couldn’t be helped.  It is now back on the list, hovering near the top as I have decided to take a cross-garden approach and spend a little and often chunk of time on everything in the garden.  If I work on a project while listening to a podcast or with a timer set and stop once times up and move to the next thing with a new topic or timer, I can move all of the overdue projects in the garden along at the same time with some dramatic progress.  Well, that is my intention and there should be some great updates in the near future. 

It isn’t like I haven’t been thinking about The Palace.  I have done a lot of research and learnt how to do new things.  The school of You Tube is such a great teacher, and I believe I can set my hand to do anything after 20 minutes of watching someone else do it!  The bravado and false confidence is enough to get me started, and then I defiantly problem solve my way towards completion.  It hasn’t let me down yet. 

I’ve also been acquiring plants and sowing seeds.  I vaguely know what I want and how I want it to look but haven’t been able to express it on a garden plan at this point.  Not wanting to miss the start of the growing season I’ve started to gather what I think I need, hopefully in large enough numbers so when it comes time I just need to put them all together like a jigsaw puzzle.  I have been taking a note of bloom times and mature plant size, so it will be more of a 3D puzzle to get the right look, that will require a lot of imagination with small seedlings.

So, from today, love will return to this new project  and all going well, everything will fall into place and before long I can stand back and be proud of all I have achieved, and everyone will finally get to see the vision I have for this garden in my head.

Come again soon – there is work to be done. 

Sarah the Gardener  : o)