Worse, a year after planting, around 25% of them remained looking like dead twigs. Mainly because they were dead twigs. The rest came slowly to life over a period of several years, but even after five years they still didn't resemble a hedge so much as a line of leafy sticks stretching the length of the garden.
Bugger that. I want it to look like a hedge from the off this time, so we'll be going for plants in pots. 2 litre pots at least.
It proved a productive trip as we discovered a fantastic garden centre in Woodford. Massive, it is, with an extensive range of... well... just about everything you'd imagine a garden centre should carry plus a substantial amount of stuff you wouldn't expect and quite a few things I didn't even know existed.
One of the things Nikki was keen to find was a bird feeder. Partly because she's always wanted one, and partly because Nat wants to study feeding habits of urban birds. As you'll no doubt realise in view of my comments above, this place had a fair selection of bird feeding equipment. About 500 square feet of it to be precise. We ummed and ahhed about exactly what we wanted, but as I always tend to the more esoteric and expensive end of the market, as soon as I saw a feeder marked "Deluxe" I knew that was the one for me. And then we needed the clever little pots to hang off it. And the grub to stuff the pots with. By the time we added it all up we'd spent about ninety quid. Looks nice though, dunnit? Nobody needs to mention the fact that it's crooked. I'd spotted that, thanks. After I'd assembled everything.These things are supposed to be moved every two months, so I'll straighten it up then, OK?
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