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What could be the worst thing to find in your garden?

surprised.jpg "Gardening" and "Discovery" go hand-in-hand when it comes to enjoying our yards. We like to find things pop up from seemingly nowhere and surprise us. Like, the first daffodil declaring that Spring is near. Or, a seedling that has self-sown itself in another part of the garden.

But there are times when finding something in our garden may not be received as enthusiastically as those things. Here are some gardeners who got a little more than they bargained for;

  • A 3-year old boy found a loaded gun in his garden
  • There was an unexploded bomb found in this UK garden.
  • This gardener hit a live grenade with his shovel while digging in his backyard
  • One Welsh couple returned from holiday to find raw sewage flooding through their yard
  • Perhaps the odd medical document might be more to your liking
  • A double whammy came when a pensioner found a crashed light aicraft carrying a convicted drug smuggler.
  • This Scottish mum discovered a bag of asbestos taking up space on her garden path.
  • Still in Scotland, a migratory bird that normally heads to Kenya for the winter ended up here for the first time in recorded history.
  • And finally, what about body parts at the back of someone else's garden?

So, next time you feel cheated at finding a snail hideout under a rusty bucket remember - it could have been much worse. At least snails don't explode (although it might not be so bad if they did!).





Posted by Stuart on March 13, 2008 6:02 AM | | Check to Subscribe to this Comment:


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Oh. When I first read the title of your post I thought, "Squash bugs. Rabbits."

I guess those aren't so bad as body parts or weapons :P

Though the bird would have been sort of cool.

Posted by: Meg | March 13, 2008 10:20 AM

The bird would have been cool, possibly too cool to survive winter though.

Posted by: Stuart | March 13, 2008 11:23 AM

Stuart, I have a good friend here on Long Island who has hybridized daylilies for 40 years (at least). A number of years ago he and his wife heard a horrible noise and came out to find a dirigible had crash landed smack square in the middle of his 1/4 acre plot. It had missed the airport that was a mile away.

Worse than the blimp was the press who came to take photos and managed to stomp on anything the blimp had missed. Honestly!

Posted by: Melanie | March 13, 2008 11:41 AM

Melanie - Sadly I had to look up the word 'dirigible' to understand what you were saying. What an amazing story - one that I'm sure most gardeners could do without. Cheers for sharing.

Posted by: Stuart | March 13, 2008 12:18 PM

Actually sea mines used to be a popular lawn ornament in west coast Sweden after the war. Not all of them were disarmed, but as far as I know no accident has happened...

Posted by: Rosengeranium (Indoor Gardener) | March 13, 2008 8:47 PM

Hi Stuart! Loved your article on discoveries in the garden. Better them, than me! Yeesch!

Posted by: RavenCroft | March 14, 2008 6:05 AM

Yes, before I read the post I too was thinking about Hosta Virus X, or that sudden oak death disease, things like that. This was amusing, and a bit mind boggling too--wouldn't it be nice if the ground could talk!

Posted by: jodi | March 14, 2008 6:24 AM

While much preferred to finding a bomb in my garden, I was not so happy to find a nest of Red Back Spiders.

Posted by: From Little Things | March 16, 2008 12:09 PM

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