I hope you’re keeping well and have had a lovely week since I’ve been last here.
It has been another beautiful week here, although there was a few thunder storms over Friday and Saturday past. Thankfully it was later on in the afternoon so all weeding and grass cutting had been finished.
Anyway, this weeks blog post, if you hadn’t already guessed, is more gardening fun.
Since we moved into this house about 18 months ago, there has been one thing that we have wanted to get sorted. However, as the house didn’t belong to use then we just had to live with it (or should I say them). And live with them we have. ‘Them’ by the way are the 30 foot fir trees in the back garden, of which there are at least 12 of!
Over the 18 months we have looked at them and tried to plan what to do. Do we cut a wallop off the top of them, do we cut them down completely, or do we just leave them and hope the garden fairies sort them out?? We really just don’t known what to with them, as we’ve never come up against anything like this before (is it obvious?). Although there is a pro for keeping them the size they are and getting them pruned and shaped, it is the amount of privacy they provide as the garden of another house runs right down to our boundary. But on the other hand, 30 foot (9 m)!
Well, the decision was taken by us this week after measuring the base of the trees and seeing how much garden they actually took up. The neighbours fence is right behind the trees, so we measure from them out to the branches at the front of the trees. The space taken up by the base of the trees ranges from 7.5′ (2.3 m) to 10.1′ (3.1 m). WOW. That is almost the size of another half of our garden again. So the decision was made there and then that they have to come down.
And coming down they are. The husband was out wielding pruners and removed some hydrangea’s that were at the base of the trees. Then on Monday night out he went again. About an hour and a half later I was called out and this is the sight that greeted me.
I shouldn’t have been surprised really because when he takes a notion there is no holding him back (I wish he was the same with the iron though!). To be honest I did stand back and think, ‘what have we let ourselves in for, these things are massive?’. Well we’ll soon find out.
So there you have it, the start of the taking down of the trees. This could be a slow process, but we are determine to have the garden that we have always wanted. Somewhere to relax, to sit out on a nice day with a drink and to have some lovely flowers and shrubs planted as well.
Oh and I almost forgot, we have fruit. There are now 2 strawberries ripe for the picking in our planter. Not enough for strawberry jam but it’s a start.
Until next time
Heather xx
Bean and Beth 