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How many trees
We inherited our back garden, it had been planted up many years before we moved here, and in that time had grown to maturity. In a long, narrow, what has doubtless seemed modest planting of trees and shrubs had, over time, resulted in a strip of woodland with a gravel path through it. Each year we hack back enough folliage that's grown that year to get to the top of the garden. Each year it grows back. There are eleven trees and half a dozen large shrubs, in a small terraced-house garden. The trees are so close that their branches mix, forming an impenetrable wall through which no sunlight comes. One of the trees is an ancient lilac which, beautiful as it is in full bloom, sucks all nutrients and moisture from the soil and kills most things that have the temerity of thinking of growing beneath it. Grass gives up the ghost, even specially bred grass suitable for shaded areas dies off in a season. It's a killer tree. Up past the towering silver birch, all of 100ft tall and reaching for the sky, three yews, like sturdy sisters, lock arms and grow ever upwards, aromatic sap colours the summer air. Holly competes too, making the job of pruning so much more suited to masochists, and presenting disposal problems for sacks of green barbed wire substitute that continues to stab fingers years after death. If not wearing goggles at this stage, it is best to keep a careful watch as unexpected eye gouging can happen to the absent minded. Finally, as if breaking through the last best of foliage into Dr Livingstone's jungle hideaway, the end is reached and the compost bin, of which more later in another despatch. |
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