The new green deal.

In my last gardening post I made a passing reference to my garden’s “green wall.” This occurs at the point in the summer when the ivy has made a solid wallpaper effect, the blue false indigo (identified by an elite horticulturalist in the comment section here) is no longer in bloom, and the sweet pea vine is filling its pods, with only a few blossoms remaining. It’s green on green on green, in what I think is a wonderful mat of life.

Not everyone feels the same way! The last couple of years I’ve had friendly neighbours tear out most of the sweet pea, thinking it was a weed. I’ve also had not-so-friendly neighbours — the kind who go out to the garden centers every Spring and buy colourful annuals that they plant in pots and baskets — that the green wall looks like crap, that it’s just a mess.

Well, all I can say is that I’ll take my green wall and its riot of messy climbing things to their pretty flowers any day. We should enjoy nature at its most natural. Plus, I spend nothing on my garden while all I hear is endless complaining from the flower crew about how expensive plants have become. I have no sympathy for these people. They know what they can do. Build the wall!