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What shall I do with this stump?

Liz WarnerLiz Warner Posts: 199
in Garden design
ive got this stump which is rotting away and nothing but weeds grows immediately by. It’s not very close to the house so it can’t be seen from the house really. What can I do with it-something fun. (Its top left of the garden picture)  
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'd have a tree surgeon come and grind it out if it were in my garden. 
    Devon.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I'd let it rot down naturally, a rotting stump is a fantastic habitat for many creatures


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ZeroZero1ZeroZero1 Posts: 577
    Fill it with soil and plant daffs :) 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @nutcutlet, I agree , and , if it were less "obvious" I'd leave it, but it's not the prettiest thing to be on full view. IMHO.
    Devon.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    As @ZeroZero1 suggests, turn it into a stumpery

    Billericay - Essex

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Hostafan1 said:
    @nutcutlet, I agree , and , if it were less "obvious" I'd leave it, but it's not the prettiest thing to be on full view. IMHO


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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I like it. Plant into it. Or put a whacking great log pile over /around it for beetle and things. Could a small pond go in behind it? Make it a nature corner. Even if you have another already.
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    My stumps,  and I have a few after many Leylandii were felled,have been left.One has an urn of flowers on it,the bird table is attached to another to stop it blowing over in the wind,I have a large stone frog sitting on another(inherited with the house) and the rest are planted round with ferns and grasses.I'm glad I kept them now,as the beetles like them.
    I phone a grinding stump man about getting one big one removed to make room for a hard stand,and he told me it wasn't worth his while for one stump!!! Charming,not the way to do business.
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  • Liz WarnerLiz Warner Posts: 199
    I love th me idea of snowdrops and ferns! I’ll add some soil, logs behind and do some planting. Thanks! 
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    Valley Gardener said:
    My stumps,  and I have a few after many Leylandii were felled,have been left.One has an urn of flowers on it,the bird table is attached to another to stop it blowing over in the wind,I have a large stone frog sitting on another(inherited with the house) and the rest are planted round with ferns and grasses.I'm glad I kept them now,as the beetles like them.
    I phoned a grinding stump man about getting one big one removed to make room for a hard stand,and he told me it wasn't worth his while for one stump!!! Charming,not the way to do business.

    The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
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