Garden troubles - pool liners and wisteria pruning
Back in May I wrote about some troubles we were having with our EuroPiscine pool liner. Not surprisingly, the problem still hasn’t been resolved and the company seem to have decided that silence is their best approach.
Happily it seems that things can proceed anyway, and our legal representatives have appointed an expert to come around and assess the problem. That at least sounds like progress, because every pool expert in the world (I think!) will take one look and agree it was a poor quality installation - apart from the wrinkles in the main liner you can also see the folds in the ‘under-liner’ where it was badly fitted.
An ‘open and shut case’ as Mrs B would say after watching too many detective programmes on the TV. Will it be resolved in time for the 2008 swimming pool season? I won’t hold my breath. (You can follow further entries relating to this liner in the category swimming pools)
Is it possible for a company to offer a ten year guarantee on the basis that it takes at least ten years to resolve any problem, by which time the guarantee has expired?
Meanwhile at the other end of the garden Mrs B has been trying to get to grips with the wisteria. You remember, I’m sure, wisteria is that attractive blue-flowered plant that you see growing up old buildings and along attractive arched pathways. Very lovely it is too.
Well we have a couple of very old wisterias and I can tell you they aren’t funny. Leave them alone for a week, and they take over the garden. Give them a fortnight and they will prise off your roof tiles and hurl them to the ground below, probably onto a passing child.
After a month they have a life of their own. Long tendrils grab at your ankles in parts of the garden far distant from the plant. If you leave the front door open for an hour, they will come on in and clamber over the furniture. We are rapidly approaching the stage where we can climb up the wisteria in the hope of meeting a giant or a wicked witch, Jack and the Beanstalk style.
If you are a gardener you might have read of the light pruning that wisterias need a couple of times a year. Well, ignore all that you have read, unless your plant is only a year or two old. We’ve discarded the pruning shears - using them to trim the wistera is a bit like using scissors to cut the lawn - and in the next few days we are going to set to with the chainsaw. That’ll show it who’s the boss.
