More big changes in the garden..

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This time it was the turn of the huge Weeping Willow, it had been worrying me for a while as I’d reached the stage whereby I could no longer keep it pruned, I had a love/hate relationship with my tree, I loved the beauty and backdrop it gave to our garden but hated the mess, also our lawn down the garden was a complete disaster, truth to tell you could not really call it a lawn, grass does not grow properly under a weeping willow.

As you can see by the pics, the tree was a bit on the large size and we are no longer of an age where we could cope with it..I thought long and hard about it but know that if we had only pollarded it , the same thing would happen except a lot quicker, we had to think of the future and of course the cost to keep it under control. Will still have a lot of shade from the hawthorn hedge, our apple tree and of course the conifers at the side of the pond…

Its the first time that side of the garden has been in the sun in the summertime for many a year, it will be interesting to see how much difference it will make to the planting down there…Yes I still have the Kayak, will be giving it away at this rate….

I know there is a huge gap but now the tree has gone, the Flowering Cherry that you can see above the fence should thicken out more, there is my Prunus down there as well, planted in memory of my mum, it was beginning to lean inwards as it struggled for the light, I have to put a new stake in to coax it upright whilst its still a youngster, it will probably have a sudden growth spurt now its not having to compete…
Now for the exciting part….
For the last couple of years I have been making a little stumpery in the corner in front of the shed, I’m not like Prince Charles, don’t have access to thousands of trees that can be uprooted in one part of the estate, then used elsewhere, I was making do with trunks I’d cut from my various trees and shrubs, now I have some wonderful shapes to work with, when the trunk came down my nephew noticed there was a hole that had formed as the branches had crisscrossed when they were growing, it had been agreed that he would have the logs for his burner, I talked nicely and asked him if he could cut around it so as I would be able to keep that piece and be creative with it, this is what I ended up with.

Fancy grooves cut into the remaining stump for me to play around with, they will wear down with the help of Mother Nature, possibly a pot of yoghurt to quicken the process, hoping they’ll soon have plenty of moss growing over them..

He also cut me some stepping pieces, now I have to play around until I like what I see.

I’m awaiting delivery of some more hardy ferns to plant but at the moment I’m trying to make my mind up as to what I can plant against the shed and fence, don’t like the bareness of the corner, it needs something, all suggestions would be gratefully received, next year I’m hoping to have a very lush green corner instead of a dull, dank one….

• 7 Sep, 2017
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