{"id":18469,"date":"2015-03-23T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18469"},"modified":"2015-04-03T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T05:00:26","slug":"springtime-chainsaw-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/springtime-chainsaw-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Springtime Chainsaw Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend saw the first proper Springtime assault on the garden.<\/p>\n

\"Hebe<\/a>

Hebe and Dogwood<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gorgeous March weather with plenty of sunshine and very little wind saw the temperatures creep up close to double figures. Anna was working all day Saturday and I spent the day trying to get the garden under control. I had planned on sorting out the front garden and cleaning up the deck, but for some reason I started out the back instead. After hacking back the pampas grass I started attacking the willow and poplar that line the fence along the southern side of our garden. I usually let these grow quite tall behind the compost bins as they then provide some shelter for the bottom part of the garden where our apiary is. They were however getting just a little too tall and blocking out lots of light as well as the wind, so out came the chainsaw and I started cutting them down to size. There’s no point doing these things by halves, so soon all of the trees that were getting on for 15 foot tall were now down to 3 foot stumps and the garden was full of the ‘cuttings’.<\/p>\n\n\t\t