Hedgecutting can be such a messy business!

With all the heavy rain, there has been little opportunity to tidy up the garden in readiness for a visit  by Ombersley Gardening Club.  On Sunday, Chris decided to cut the hedges.  It's not such a bad job until he gets to Thyme Square.  On the steps is where I hide all the scruffy spring flowering pots which, at this time of year, are full of dead, dying yellow and brown Daffodil and Hyacinth leaves!  All of these had to be moved along with loads of other pots containing Dahlias etc etc etc . Moving all the pots was a big enough job and then all the hedge cuttings fall everywhere and worse still is clearing them all up without disturbing any of the gravel between the path slabs and bricks.

 

Now - our Chris is a bit of a dab hand at using a plastic rake.  He picks up huge rakefuls of rubbish using his foot to load the rake and then with a deft aim towards the barrow, deposits a large pile of cuttings neatly inside!  It's like picking up a tennis ball using the racket head and the side of one's foot!  Try as I do, I have only been able to master one of these actions and sadly, it's not picking up hedge cuttings!  So I raked and collected by hand and then Chris went round with the blower and all the gravel stayed put and all the remnants disappeared!  When I use the blower, I manage to blow rubbish all round in circles or all over the lawn!  

I'll leave you to decide which are the before and after photos!!