Spent quite a penny to clean our garden
@allknowing (130066)
India
October 29, 2018 6:23am CST
Thanks to falling of leaves and over growth due to incessant rain our garden had a cluttered look.
I could only attend to our garden after I got up from my bed rest. Had to engage outside labour and hire a tempo to clean the mess. It was a two day task.
There is more work such as cleaning the roof, the birdbath. the paths, the gate and even painting here and there.
It is worth all that effort as the garden gets a spruced up look and strolling becomes a joy.
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@Lignitecityabishek96 (7110)
• Cuddalore, India
29 Oct 18
What's the name of that statue?
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@Lignitecityabishek96 (7110)
• Cuddalore, India
29 Oct 18
@allknowing looking unique
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
29 Oct 18
@allknowing correct it's an angel, a cherub or cherubim to be exact.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
29 Oct 18
This looks truly lovely. Sometimes it is good to pay and just get the work all done.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
This year it was much too much that it could not be handled by us without engaging outside labour.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
29 Oct 18
Falling leaves is also my problem especially from our bilimbi tree, the leaves are very small and hard to sweep, your garden is beautiful.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
We have countless trees that shed every single day
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
@louievill We have an incinerator where we burn leaves but with this non stop rain that was not possible.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
29 Oct 18
@allknowing ours too, mango leaves are easier to sweep, another problem with leaves is they clog up the roof gutter so I need to go up and prune them, I can relate very much to what you are trying to do lol, fallen leaves and rain makes the garden really look cluttered, add the small dried twigs
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
This year in particular rain played havoc in that we had to do trimming more than once .
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
@LadyDuck There are times our workers do not turn up and added to that I could not supervise because I was recommended bed rest. Now most is cleaned up.
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@LadyDuck (457918)
• Switzerland
29 Oct 18
@allknowing We had plenty of rain in May and June and too little from mid August until two days ago.
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@simplfred (20608)
• Philippines
29 Oct 18
Beautiful garden you have there. Most of your plants there, we have it also.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
Our garden is pretty huge and needs maintenance every single day.
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@simplfred (20608)
• Philippines
29 Oct 18
@allknowing At least, that's a bit of exercise for you.
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@septabchips (1142)
• Nigeria
29 Oct 18
Your garden looks very nice! Good job. keep it up!
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
The leaves keep dropping every single day We have several fruit trees.
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@snowy22315 (169866)
• United States
29 Oct 18
Well it certainly looks beautiful now! Money well spent, I guess!
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
Our garden is pretty huge with fruit trees that shed leaves on a daily basis and that clutters our garden.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
@math21 We do that too. We have visitors and house guests too. I must say I am proud of our garden and yes it is no doubt hard work more getting the work done which again is not easy.
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@math21 (184)
• Philippines
29 Oct 18
@allknowing but Im sure its all worth it. It so relaxing, If I have a garden like yours I will invite friends to come over.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
We do have assistance but this work needed outside help. It was too much.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
@playertwo You are tempting me to go for vegetables. We had them a long time ago.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
A cluttered garden does not do much to one's eyes.
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@DianneN (246589)
• United States
30 Oct 18
@allknowing I agree. Ours will be cut back and cleaned when the leaves are finished falling.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
30 Oct 18
I have a lot of greenery. I also have a garden on the terrace but that does not help much in intense summer.
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@Janet357 (75656)
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30 Oct 18
@allknowing ideal place to do vegetable gardening.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
30 Oct 18
I have help around and that is the only I can get it maintained.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
30 Oct 18
@debjani1 Our garden is around 20,000 sq. ft and so we sure need help to maintain it
@debjani1 (7207)
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30 Oct 18
@allknowing very interesting one if somebody helps you.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
Yes truly ours 
It is just a small part. We have a huge garden
It is just a small part. We have a huge garden
@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
What you see in the image is a small part. There is more work to be done in the whole garden.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
May be you can attend to small parts of the garden at a time.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Oct 18
If it is not attended to on a day to day basis things get out of hand as it happened this time.
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