I trimmed our Hawthorn hedge yesterday, for the first time this year. Very hard work as it was very overgrown, the weather has been too wet as it `s not advisable to use an electric hedge clipper in wet weather. The hedge is about 12-13m long by 1.5m high by 3/4m wide and runs round the side and front of our front garden. The hardest part of trimming it is holding the hedge clipper at shoulder height to cut the top, as it`s quite heavy. ( I don`t suppose I should be doing work like this at my age and with my health problems but I`m too tight to employ a contractor)!
As if that wasn`t enough hard work, today I mowed both front lawns (2nd time this year) while the wife did lots of weeding.
A few weeks ago I fitted two pieces of trellis to the fence in the back garden, then bought 2 Clematis plants to grow up them. Planted the Clematis last week and that was a struggle of a job just digging the holes to plant them. Roots everywhere, and roots from a large tree outside the garden were crossing the bottom of one hole.
A few years ago I had to pull up and relay the back garden path as I found that a large root from the said tree was pushing the paving up and had grown almost the full length of the path almost up to the back door.
Eric. Cheadle Hulme, Stockport.