MMXXVI - A new year & a new life!

 Well - today marks both a new year in the garden and, for me, a whole new and very different life!  I shall be testing gardening as a therapy to its absolute limits.  I am determined keep the garden going in Al's memory as I promised him.

On a very frosty and sunny day, work began with hedges and ivy.  I don't normally complain about working in the sunshine but it was so low in the sky and so brilliant some work was difficult when looking into it!

Andrew and I trimmed the ivy growing on dead trees and removed it from all living trees.  It's a menace in the wrong place!  Roses and Clematis were all tied, hedges were trimmed and we had a proper clear out at the back of the Woodland Border.  Andrew trimmed the inside of the boundary hedges form the Top Lawn Border down to Compost Corner removing damaged hawthorn branches as he went.  Even the ivy around Cordelia was trimmed! All this work added a huge amount to the bonfire pile and the compost heap.