There’s got to be a better way. Permanent scaffolding inside the arch? Or would getting an extension for the tower be enough??
Arrival of the Tower
And then it started to pour down.
First ascent through a flap.
Pete waits for Jeff to fall off….
Up the middle now – this is the dodgy bit. Platform mounted on steps going down to the meadow.
Piles of clippings accumulate.
Sides next. Pete is hard at work round the back.
Done!
All the fun possibilities with a Tower….
Jeff’s comment? “A good work out and only one near death experience = result.”
Relief all round..
Phew! When I talk about low(er) maintenance gardening to clients I do indicate the perils of large hedges, topiary and pleached lime screens. Wonderful building blocks for many a garden, but also a rod for your own back in mature years…yours and the hedge’s…..
Veddw would be a lesser garden without such chunky green elements but I dread to think of the cost of the upkeep of the hedges alone. Keep it up Anne and Charles xxx
And Jeff… we’ll do our best. Xxxx
Wow!!!!
….and YIKES!!!!!!
Absolutely!
Reading this post I was holding my breath. Surely nothing awful was going to happen… and with only one near death experience, I guess it didn’t. Glad it is over, though. Is this a once/year job?
Sometimes twice a year. Yes – we need a better way! It always goes background at the time (like now) when it’s done because we’re so over busy. Then we forget. Scaffolding, I think…. Xx
I’ve always wanted a hornbeam arch. Your post has not cured me of wanting one, but it has reinforced why I don’t have one!
That’s a wonderful thing about the garden, really. No-one should ever be jealous because of what it involves. A surveyor recently told us that the property value here would be nothing. Because no-one would want to take on the garden…