10th October 2023
Day two of the garden clean-up, Forsythia.
This was the shrub next door that was hanging over my path. Usually I would trim it back, but these were out of control. I had spoken to the lady next door and agreed that I would take them down to the ground.
So I was ready to do the deed, I was up early, I had a small breakfast and even got to the supermarket before nine. I needed things because Nicola and Colin were coming to help, and Colin likes his cake.
Once that was done, I filled five bags with the Buddleia cuttings ready to take to the tip.
I did make a start with the forsythia removing three separate bushes that were sheltering the plants on my side. That made a large pile on the slope, I knew that was just a small part of what was to come.
Once Nicola and Colin arrived they were the heavy artillery, in a short time everything that looked like a forsythia had gone, the pile on the slope was enormous. When I returned from the tip run we started packing the bags with the new branched.
I have learned the secret of successful bag loading and that is by cutting the branches into small pieces, now that might be obvious to most people, but not to me at first.
When faced with a mountain of branches it’s hard to imagine that it could get any smaller, but we all snipped away, and soon filled seven bags ready for the tip run tomorrow.
It was a fantastic effort that couldn’t have been done without the dynamic duo.
Another Lifetime to go 