Up the Garden Path

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Along the North side of the garden is a Holly hedge. Mostly Holly, there is some Yew a couple of huge protected Beech and a half dead but still protected Sycamore.
Access to the hedge has not been easy so we decided to put a path along side the hedge so I can prune it easily.

I had enough engineering type bricks to do this part of the path.

Since the path will only be used when the hedge needs trimming there is no need for anything other than bark as the surface.

At the hedge I turned left and carried on path making.

To begin with all I did was rake off the top couple of inches.

The people next door gave me a stack of bricks which I used to edge the path.

There were not enough bricks to go all the way up to the top of the garden so I left it about 30 feet short. I will carry on when I can get more bricks.

We managed to get enough bags of bark mulch to give the path a decent depth of covering.

I used some of the logs from when we did the work on the Conifer hedges on the right hand side of the path.

We still need some more Bark mulch, but the local suppliers have not been able to re-stock with the Lock down situation.

Neighbours have had more work done and donated a load of house bricks to me, so I completed the path along the Holly hedge and had enough to bring the path out to the back of the Summer house.

The only major problem was this Laurel stump where the path was to go. It took us hours of work to reduce it to where it was lower than the path level.

We bought some more Bark mulch and that completed the job nicely.

• 25 Oct, 2020
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