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We finally wore him out. No more hedge cutting.

Installing the Globes with Charles

It’s terrifying. It’s not as if he just did hedge cutting – and there’s a hell of a lot of that – but he was always willing to turn his hand, and brain, arms and legs, to anything else we asked of him. He helped with our building projects as you can see above, he did strimming, planting, pruning, painting, gravelling the paths, mulching, cutting down delinquent shrubs and trees, mending conservatory roof lights, and removing diseased box when we were too upset to contemplate it.

He has a good eye and an intelligent and problem solving approach to everything he did. He worked fast and hard in the cold and the rain and I think he’s paid the price for it. I do hope he’ll recover and we can’t help hoping that he may be able to come back and help out again, even if not with hedge cutting.

Here he is, about to cut a gigantic holly.

And here, building….

Semi Circle at Veddw Copyright Anne Wareham
A permanent Jeff piece of work

How will we manage to replace him? Charles has been doing his level best to keep the garden good, almost like an addiction, and he’s getting battered by it too and he can’t face the major hedges which Jeff was known for, county wide. Kept up all on one day a week.

A few of the Veddw hedges under Jeff’s care.

How can we possibly replace Jeff?

One problem is that it’s a puzzle. People who advertise hedge cutting also seem to be tree surgeons and landscapers, and we don’t need those things much, just a lot of other things. We’re getting older (that must surprise you) too, so more than ever we need someone we can turn to for heavy work.

Are we looking for a ‘gardener’? Perhaps, but we’re not looking for skilled pruning, grafting and RHS qualifications, which may make it hard for someone to adopt our rather unusual approach to gardening.

Charles does do good stuff….

This is scary in many ways!

Gulp.

I believe we need too many things to find in one person. See the list of things Jeff has done for us. Do we need a company? What sort? Or another mad dedicated individual? Or a gardener and a hedge cutter as well?

And will anyone anywhere be willing to take any part of this on!???

Help!

And no more Billy!

Billy at Veddw, copyright Anne Wareham

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