Monday, 13 August 2012

In the Garden

Aspen
           The front is at last tidy.  I got up early and was all ready to mow, but got a telling of from Himself as it was not yet nine O'Clock.  I should do some weeding or clipping instead, something quiet.  Sulky faced, I did.  Clippers out, I started with the hedge at the front which has shot up this year.  I planted the mixed hedge of hazel, beech, holly, lavender, Rosa Ragosa, non-fruiting currant and Forsythia about five years ago.  It did well the fist two, but with the dry spring of the last two years grew little.  This summer and spring it has flourished along with all the other trees and shrubs.
Hazel
Jasmine
          Once I'd clipped the hedge and put the clippings in the brown bin it was time to have a go at the flower beds.  They have grown so much I simply clipped them in the same way as the hedge.  Himself was up by this time and took over at the front, doing the mowing and strimming at the front.  I moved to the back and continued to clip.  The holly needed a good trim as did the forsythia, roses, nettle patch, and hazel shrubbery, now more of a hedge and chicken shelter, dust bathing spot and pathway.  Prior to trimming the hazel, I tied the Jasmine to the Aspen trunk, breathing  in the beautiful scent from the little white flowers.
Forsythia

       The rose arch did not escape.  Its growth has been phenomenal this year, the honeysuckle, which has done so little, has shot up and reaches the top of the arch.  I cut the roses severely, they were standing up from the top of the arch by more than a metre, a few of the stalks had fallen and broken.  I left a stubble.  Now, light can reach the other plants like the honeysuckle so it can continue to grow, and the cheeky Ivy that has wound its way up one of the supports.
        The front, all dressed, mown and strimmed looks lovely.  The back is strimmed but needs mowing still.  My job methinks on the next dry day.







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