We are arrived back in France to sign the paperwork on 6th February (our wedding anniversary!) and spent all day attacking the garden. There was a freezing easterly wind and the only way to keep warm was to work. John alternated between taking down the huge laurel hedge and the trimming a lovely boundary hedge made up of copper beech, oak, holly, ash, hawthorn and other unknown bushes!
I continued pruning fruit trees and clearing ivy, wisteria and honeysuckle from a roof.
Having attached the base of the ivy on my last visit I was able to clear away everything expect the ‘poodle pom-pom’; ivy that is entangled in a rusty metal frame.
Pruned apple, cherry and mulberry trees.
"Don't Lick the Walls!" 