The tree surgeons were here last week. I had a long list of what had to be done. First of all, the laurel hedge I planted years ago needed attention. As in the photo above, I could trim the lower half, but that was not the right thing to do. It left the top half that needed to be straight. Some severe pruning has left it in a sorry state as the photo below. Hopefully it will recover in the next couple of years.
Next up the removal of a hawthorn tree at the very far corner of the garden. It had become terribly overgrown over the years with all the foliage over hanging next door's garden. As the photos below, we were just left with two trunk systems which have now been removed.
I would have preferred the removal of the whole of the Elder at the far end but in the end settled for two branches that overhang the laurels.
Despite many failed attempts over the last few years to destroy the stumps of the four old Aylesbury Prune trees that died, I finally gave up and these were ground out.
The viburnum in the wildflower border has been fine for the last few years, but gradually it expectedly got fed up with constantly being trimmed. And is now no more.
Finally one large branch of the pyracantha, that was hard against the wall at the front, has been removed. It's amazing how much room it has left at the end of the joint border.
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