Hedge Matters
As always, I was half-way through a gardening job yesterday when I thought, ‘I should have taken a ‘before’ photo so people will be amazed at the transformative nature of my toil when they see the ‘after’ photo,’ but I didn’t, and there it is. I hadn’t planned to do a major gardening job. I happened to be putting some bits into the recycling bin, which is on the driveway, and I spotted some tufts of mare’s tail in the block paving. I thought, I’ll just hoick those out,’ because mare’s tail is a nightmare and needs heading off at the pass at every opportunity. So, I nipped out the mare’s tail and then I found myself perusing the leylandii hedge that separates our front drive from that of our neighbours. It looks a bit like this - solid, dense, green, smells nice, about 4 feet high and 12 feet long: Now, a few weeks ago, our neighbour - Don - collared me and said would we mind getting rid of this hedge because he was becoming increasingly worried about keeping all his ga...
