Sunday, 27 April 2008
Good trees and bad trees
Spent yesterday morning having a bumble around Hitchin, stopping for a drink and bacon croissant at Cafe Rouge, watching the samba band process a couple from the registry office to their reception. Then we came home and destroyed a large part of Gods creation. Well, a fair part of two trees, and they are bad trees and probably not created by God but by the devil. Leylandii are very bad trees, and whoever thought it was a good idea to plant 5 in our garden many years ago wants taking out and shooting. But now there are not quite 5 any more. We have 'pruned' 2 of the brutes. We can now see daylight at the end of the garden. Where once there was only darkness and undergrowth there is now light and space. And it will help the 2 good trees to grow and reach their potential - well, within reason anyway. They will get pruned too, but without the use of bow saws and an axe. Now we just have to get rid of the debris of 80% of 2 large conifers. This will mean a lot of brown bins full and trips to the tip to hide the evidence. But when we look out and see the sky, even when it's raining like now, it was worth it.
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4 comments:
leylandii are certainly not natural trees....
...you like gardening????
...I have a penchant for gravel and concrete, but out Manse has almost 2 acres of land.... and is the product of an ex-minister who loved gardening...
we are aiming for the wild look!
I like pottering and chopping down trees, but leave weeding to the chickens. And I don't mind cuttng the grass now we've got a decent mower.
And I think the wild look is important in these days of a shrinking countryside, so keep up the good work!!
lol- some of the church menbers wander by muttering about how well Arthur kept the garden. I got fed up with this and have invited them to a weeding and pruning party.... I'll make tea!
They probably won't come!
My Dad has also been chopping leylandii down just across town from you. Is somebody broadcasting subliminal "chop down the leylandii" messages?
They're not all bad. They're good for birds to nest in and they suck up CO2. So I hope you're using the wood creatively and not just putting it in the brown bins to rot and put the CO2 back? Perhaps Sally could knock up some kind of act of worship with the logs and a few pine cones?
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