I still love my eco fence with its environmentally friendly materials, habitats for plants and animals and weather resistance. Today I noticed that the clematis that I planted inside the fence has finally, after seven years, flowered for the first time. If you add that fact to the serendipitous other fact that the wisteria planted before my time that’s also colonised the eco fence is also flowering and my world feels as though at least some things are going well.

There are a whole host of things going on inside the fence and unusually (because most of what I plant here seems to turn up its toes and die really quickly) all of the scrambling, climbing things inside it seem to be thriving. I’m thinking that there is no reason whatsoever why this shouldn’t be repeated in the other place I’ve used this technique, other than the fact that the hostile neighbours hate plants and therefore would just hack off anything daring to stray over the fence. That kind of brutality is such an undesirable trait.

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