Time to Prune

Yesterday an arborist came to prune our wheeping willows.

When he was packing up his gear a common buzzard
landed on the big branch he's standing on (photo 1).

When the kenderman was gathering all the wood that fell from the tree
a common barn owl flew from under our half open barn!

Woohoo!!! Not that "common" to us!

Pollarding

Time to do some pollarding...

The first one is almost finished... only 7 more Willows to go...

Pollarding

Yesterday we've been pollarding some of our Willows......

You might question yourself what I've been doing.......

I've been catching branches, cutting up branches, stacking our wooded bank,

making coffee, making sandwiches and ........... taking pictures  :)

Garden Day

Yesterday was the first day for a long time, we worked in the garden together .

The kenderman was pruning the last two willows.

I have been tidying in the borders.

Trimming

 Our hedge was in desperate need of a trimming.

I started this job just using my secateurs and some twine a few days ago.

This is how it looks now.

The job isn't finished yet but it looks better already.

Gardening again!

The weather is getting better now.
Preparing for springtime.