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So...this happened in the gales last night:




That's my main herbacious border under that lot! Half the pots on my patio smashed to bits. My clematis, hebe, roses, penstemon, the beautiful thalictrums and aquilegia, alchemilla and day lilies, brand new bedding plants and wallflower just planted last week, daffodils that were just about to bloom, baby foxgloves and hollyhock, the oregano and knapweed that the bees loved so much...

Words can't describe how gutted I am. The landlady is coming out later to assess and talk party wall responsibility with the neighbour. She'll have to arrange a builder to remove the rubble and rebuild the wall. And only then will I be able to even think about what can be salvaged. :(

ETA I've been totting up the damage...

Pots destroyed on patio:
2 x fuchsia
1 x penstemon
1 x standard rose
2 x lavender
1 x wisteria
1 x clematis
1 x everlasting pea
2 x geranium
1 x garlic
1 x mint

Plants in the garden crushed underneath all that rubble include:
Roses (bush & climbing)
Hebe
Penstemon
Erysimum Bowle's Mauve
Fuchsia
Valerian
Ceanothus
Thalictrum
Knapweed
Verbena
Day lilies
Oregano
Rosemary
Melissa
Polemonium
Primroses
Achillea
Alchemilla
Aquilegia
Dicentra
Foxgloves
Hollyhock
Geranium
Geum
Heuchera
Tiarella
Feverfew
Sedum
Dianthus
Lawn chamomile
Forget-me-not
Tulips
Daffodils
Bluebells
Crocuses
Fritillary
Lysimachia
Helichrysum
Bellis...
And the ivy, of course. I confess I wanted to get rid of all the ivy off that wall, but I wasn't planning to throw the whole wall out with it!

Also damaged / destroyed:
Hanging basket
Multiple plant supports
Bug house
Rotary washing line

That's...a pretty hefty swathe of destruction for one storm to cause in one garden!