Trees on Fire!

We are waiting for things to dry up so we can have a garden bonfire to get rid of the various tree prunings etc.

When the sun was setting the other day Elizabeth photographed the garden and it gives the effect that we had set fire to all the trees not just the prunings...

Watch this space for the actual bonfire, IF it drys up enough for the prunings to burn that is!!! They are currently under 300mm of water.

Pimp my poplar!

The fifty six poplars which surround three sides of the garden were getting a bit untidy round the base of the trunks.

When we were out walking at the end of last year we saw these poplars, trimmed round the base and looking so much better than our scruffy ones.

So over the past couple of days Colin has been cutting off the dead branches to tidy things up a bit whilst I took the branches to our bonfire, which has burned now for over 24 hours!

The result was a much neater appearance and more space for the hammock to swing.

Result!!