The weather was fine on Sunday, Jon and the dogs had been out for a long walk the previous day, therefore there was no excuse not to do some gardening. We want to trim the hedges before they start growing again and the birds make nests in them, so we tackled an internal beech hedge first that separates the path running alongside the conservatory from the vegetable patch. We decided to bite the bullet and not merely trim it but hack it down from three foot to a foot, the rationale being that we would be able to see more of the garden when dining. The task was complicated by the amount of embedded rusty chicken wire, but we got there in the end.
Okay, it’s not particularly pretty at the moment but it has opened that side of the garden up. Once the remaining hedge has got over the shock of such a severe “hairdo” and established itself again we’ll tidy it up before we have visitors.
