LB, that holly bush is in the wood at the back of the kitchen window,above the basement.....two storeys up. I used to be able to stand on a ladder and cut some but not now!
When I was a small child we lived on a farm in Bedfordshire, right on the edge of the Woburn estate ... there was a long hollyhedge at the end of the road ...... it was so tall I thought it reached up and touched the sky ,,, every winter the gypsies would arrive and cut the holly and take it to Covent Garden market ... the hedge is still there, more than sixty years later ....... holly has always been special to me
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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LB, that holly bush is in the wood at the back of the kitchen window,above the basement.....two storeys up. I used to be able to stand on a ladder and cut some but not now!
When I was a small child we lived on a farm in Bedfordshire, right on the edge of the Woburn estate ... there was a long hollyhedge at the end of the road ...... it was so tall I thought it reached up and touched the sky ,,, every winter the gypsies would arrive and cut the holly and take it to Covent Garden market ... the hedge is still there, more than sixty years later ....... holly has always been special to me
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A sensible idea Joyce, though I have got a cracking ladder you could borrow - with hand rails!