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Most plants are interesting when the grow, but not grass which
is terribly boring stuff.
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Becka ordered a hundred and fifty trees through the university.
This sounded impressive until they came in the form of these bags of twigs.
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We did a couple of days of digging and
planting of these "trees" in rows.
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The soil is pretty shallow in places (the tarmac path is laid
directly on the sandstone bedrock) so we walled it up using the old roofslates.
Not sure how well this is going to work in the long run.
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This was how it looked in June once the leaves had sprouted.
Not very big yet. Becka will need a lot of nerve to prune these babies back
by the proper amount in order to form a proper hedge rather than a row of small trees.
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This embarrassing gap is supposed to grow into a beech hedge. This
could be a long term project.
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[This is what a proper hedge is supposed to look like].
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In the meantime, by the front gate, a triffid garden is being cultivated.
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Sometimes a cute little bunny rabbit finds its way into the garden.
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But after Becka found one of her trees had been ring-barked she decided
such creatures were no longer welcome. Later in the week we spotted a rat climbing in
the tree just over the fence.
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