Sentence:  She is only coming to gloat over my <WSD>bedraggled</WSD> and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I'm sick of being told that it's the envy of the neighbourhood; it's like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.