Your garden is lovely and has obviously been in the hands of someone who knows exactly what they are doing. I would go with the suggestions above, continue with the once a year payout, watch, listen and learn from the expert and join a club to find help. Those trees are tall so climbing them and clipping them is not a job for a novice. If the garden was part of why you bought the house, a once a year visit should not work out too expensive if you think of the money you will save not having to buy new plants etc. each year for an English cottage garden. Mature Japanes gardens take a long time to achieve and add value to the property so also think of much value the garden will add to your home as each year goes by. For a long time I dreamed of creating a Japanese garden for myself but the idea of my cat, plus the entire neighbourhoods feline population using the gravel as their latrine, put me off. I have had to fence off my veg. patch to stop them digging up my seed beds.
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Thanks for your comments. I’ll up load some before/after pictures I took at the start of August.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I would go with the suggestions above, continue with the once a year payout, watch, listen and learn from the expert and join a club to find help. Those trees are tall so climbing them and clipping them is not a job for a novice. If the garden was part of why you bought the house, a once a year visit should not work out too expensive if you think of the money you will save not having to buy new plants etc. each year for an English cottage garden. Mature Japanes gardens take a long time to achieve and add value to the property so also think of much value the garden will add to your home as each year goes by.
For a long time I dreamed of creating a Japanese garden for myself but the idea of my cat, plus the entire neighbourhoods feline population using the gravel as their latrine, put me off. I have had to fence off my veg. patch to stop them digging up my seed beds.