{"id":6399,"date":"2021-08-29T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T15:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2021-08-29T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T15:05:49","slug":"sunday-29-august-privet-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-29-august-privet-dancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 29 August – Privet Dancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week\u2019s blog<\/a> said that my focus for the last 7 days would be hedge cutting \u2013 if the weather stayed fine and it didn\u2019t disturb our guests.\u00a0 Thankfully, for the most part, that is what I have been able to do so this won\u2019t be a very long blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The week\u2019s weather has been glorious.  Totally dry and one of the hotter weeks of the summer so far which has been great for our guests, it has allowed me to make a good start attacking the hedges (which I think will now be at least a 2 week job twice a year if I can manage it.) However, because the weather has been glorious, and because, we are delighted our guests increasingly enjoy relaxing in the tranquillity of our lovely gardens, so as not to disturb them with the noise of the hedge cutters, I have restricted the hours I work on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, I have trimmed our box hedging around the champignon beds behind Priory which are beginning to look great.\u00a0 We don\u2019t often look at back at how things used to be generally preferring to look at the long list of things that we still want to achieve!\u00a0 However, these box plants have grown so much since we created the beds in 2016, they can now be called an actual hedge, rather than individual plants.\u00a0 We just want them to grow a little taller still, so they become more of a visual barrier to the few dogs who choose to jump over, and sometimes run through them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Box plants placed prior to planting<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

2021:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our box topiary hedges coming on well around the champignons<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Other hedges I have managed to complete are the privet in front of Hayloft:<\/p>\n\n\n\n