The weather’s gone cool, the days short and the autumn colours have come out strongly this year. Not yet enough wind to blow all the leaves away but the growing season is over and it’s time for cutting back and shaping.
The result of several years of my management is that I’m getting shape and density back in to the hedges and the shrubs are less stringy. The wild bees are still around, even in November. One of the local pheasants came to check me out when I was taking a break. This is all wet growth which my shredder doesn’t work with so it either has to lay on the ground to mulch (and provide cover for wildlife, eg hedgehogs) or it has to go out to the council tip in bags or bins.
