i dont do gardens. in fact i hate gardens. give me a nice flat in a high rise building somewhere.
i also never learnt anything about gardening growin up, lived in a flat in the desert.
so
our garden has become completely over run by ivy. a few years ago i used to be quite good at pulling out what i perceived to be weeds. did the occasional lawnmowing too. then for various reasons, connected with annoying dh, and excessive number of children, i just stopped. every so often either dh would mow the lawn, or he would get someone in to do it.
now, having a garden party type thing this weekend, (grass mown, lots of greenery in garden) i went out and had a proper look. 90% of the greenery is ivy.
my question is this. can i dig out the ivy, fill it up with compost and plant some lavender? yesterday i got these long handles shears think, and chopped the base of the flower bed, now an ivy bed, the ivy is trailing up the palm tree, but it hasnt killed it yet.
or is it too ambitous of me. should i just leave it, as someone like me wouldnt be able to do this on her own?