Hedges

Hedges:

Dear All,
Soon the gardener will be outside the walls wearing her large sun hat and armed with her clippers. Foliage will fly, the spiders will scatter and soon all will be, once more, under control!

I am sure there is a little birds nest in the tree near the gate. I am pretty sure the chicks  fledged earlier in August but I will walk very quietly past just in case.

Mini Hedge Workbook:

Our friend Fatima brought the mat displayed below for show and tell at one of our mini musketeers get togethers and said. "Perhaps you would like to take some of this greenery and see what can be done with it."

Elizabeth of http://www.studioeminiatures.blogspot.ca jumped for joy and said: "It is a hedge".
Yes, Elizabeth, you were right  - once again.
Fatima gave me the whole mat to see if it would work and I think it works very well. The price is certainly right!  Thanks Fatima for your sharp eyes and generosity!

You can see by the photo above that the foliage is on a grid, each plant can be used individually or as a run. I cut the left side two narrow rectangles and glued it on to cardboard. I then filled the rectangles with white glue and pressed my tea/coffee dirt mix into the glue to form a semblance of a garden bed. The piece below was cut off the run as it was  too long.

Here is an unfinished wall.

Now the hedge is sitting in place. You can see part of the garden soil on the right hand edge.

I think it took about an hour to get the hedging into place. I will have to do some fine tuning but it was such an easy project.

The gardener will consider if the hedge needs some infill planting and perhaps some minor pruning.

Oh, I can do all that in the late afternoon, it's too hot to work. I think I'll retire into the shade, drink lemonade and read a book. 

Regards Janine

PS. My book club LAFF, Literary Association for Fun has just read Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a tale about the Biafran War and events leading up to their attempt to separate from Nigeria. A great book for discussion.

There are ten members of LAFF. We meet once a month except July and August and each takes a turn to host an evening of lively discussion, good food and of course wine! 

Our LAFF group has been together for twenty years. I was so grateful they saved my place for me while I was travelling.

Regards Janine