What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK3.. 2013

Today we have the tree surgeons turning up. Lots of cutting to be done! Things will look a lot different for open day next year as the willow will be cut back to the main trunks.

 

That's what I thought too when I saw Monty Don using wire wool on Gardeners World, personally I just use a rubber ersaser - it's a lot simpler

 

I used to use Permanent Markers to write on the plastic plant labels only to find the writing had faded and disappeared within months.......so much for "Permanent"

 

Some of the work done in the front garden yesterday. I've been doing some tidying up after them, today.

There were six conifers to be cut down to the same height as the LeyLandii hedge. These are some of them.





On the way out

Going


Going


Gone

 

The willow has had its five yearly hair cut and the cherry prunus has been thinned out.


Before





After



and the cherry prunus is a lot thinner



This contorted hazel was above the roof so needed some shaping (also done every five years)

 

Yes, he does look close but he was about 4ft away. That's why he had to cut the trunk into small sections, so that they wouldn't hit the cable as they went.

 

Well, the Lavender in the front of the House and in the garden has kept flowering all through the Autumn and still had a few flower spikes today. But I got the secateurs out and trimmed them down to a nice shape ready for next year.