There was more than a touch of blue in the sky this morning which made a welcome change. And then the day kept on getting sunnier and sunnier albeit with a light sea haze. And gone was the icy wind, wonderful!
Our Welsh practice has been rescheduled to next week so although the spring cleaning isn't quite finished I couldn't not spend a large part of the day out in the garden. The first job was to remove the hawthorn that I had planted by the garden wall. I like native plants and when I came across a sapling randomly growing in the garden I thought it might be a good way to extend the hedge. But with the variegated Griselinia doing well despite having most of its roots chopped off when I dug it out of a wall and the realisation that it probably wasn't a good idea to be growing something that had the potential to be a small tree, right by the garden wall and very close to the foundations of the house next-door I decided it had to go. Last year I planted fennel plants by the wall which in summer should screen next-door's giant window that overlooks the garden. I'm not that fussed but they tend to keep the curtain drawn there as I would be looking right into their sitting room. That done I turned to the other side of the garden and thinned the long hedge to stop it from growing over the plants in the raised bed. That included the lovely lace cap hydrangea near the end of the hedge. Some of the hydrangeas have buds that are already opening which told me it was time to prune the ones that need their size restricting. Some do fine if I leave them but others needed a bit of tidying up. The hedge in particular now looks bare and generally too tidy for my taste but it needed doing to allow all the other plants to flourish.
14th February 2024.
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