Hedge Trimming
Hedge Trimming
Wow, I think the whole world is hedge trimming at the moment. Now (late summer, early autumn) is the time to cut back your conifers and beech hedges and all that, which in my garden is most of the hedging. I cut the privet last week, it should have had more cuts over the summer, but it has had to get away with just the one. I didn't want to disturb it in early summer because of all the birds.
Today I did one of the beech hedges and also a yew which isn't a hedge but a big bush by the bird feeders. Sometimes the sparrowhawk lurks in the bush waiting to pounce on the little birds, but it gives the birds refuge most of the time and a sneaky way of approaching the feeders.
We had to go to the dump later with many of the cuttings (some from the last few weeks!) and the household refuse site (to give it it's more formal name!) was teeming with people with sackfuls and armfuls of the stuff, so obviously everyone is hedge trimming now.
Some of the leylandii are too high for me to reach. They don't belong to me but to neighbours so I hope that isn't going to lead to trouble in the future. None of them encroach on our light as such although one is out to the east of us so could eventually obscure the morning sun. It wouldn't be such a bad thing as we get blinded by it in the conservatory of a spring morning, but having said that we do like to see some sky and birds in that direction. The neighbour who owns that leylandii is never there so it is difficult to talk to him. He seems like a nice enough chap but if he isn't there it is hard to know what to do.
Wow, I think the whole world is hedge trimming at the moment. Now (late summer, early autumn) is the time to cut back your conifers and beech hedges and all that, which in my garden is most of the hedging. I cut the privet last week, it should have had more cuts over the summer, but it has had to get away with just the one. I didn't want to disturb it in early summer because of all the birds.
Today I did one of the beech hedges and also a yew which isn't a hedge but a big bush by the bird feeders. Sometimes the sparrowhawk lurks in the bush waiting to pounce on the little birds, but it gives the birds refuge most of the time and a sneaky way of approaching the feeders.
We had to go to the dump later with many of the cuttings (some from the last few weeks!) and the household refuse site (to give it it's more formal name!) was teeming with people with sackfuls and armfuls of the stuff, so obviously everyone is hedge trimming now.
Some of the leylandii are too high for me to reach. They don't belong to me but to neighbours so I hope that isn't going to lead to trouble in the future. None of them encroach on our light as such although one is out to the east of us so could eventually obscure the morning sun. It wouldn't be such a bad thing as we get blinded by it in the conservatory of a spring morning, but having said that we do like to see some sky and birds in that direction. The neighbour who owns that leylandii is never there so it is difficult to talk to him. He seems like a nice enough chap but if he isn't there it is hard to know what to do.
posted by The Enthusiastic Gardener | 7:55 AM
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