| My garden is not in any sense a 'formal' garden, but I rake the leaves off the drive and pile them in a heap for whatever cares to use it. Same applies to the wilder bits of herbage - I scythe some of them down and pile them up. I have lots of Elm suckers by the side of my drive, that I am progressively reducing, winter by winter. They get piled up for wood eating creatures. Last year I exposed a Rowan that I didn't know I had, shrouded by Elm and Blackthorn. Some of the Blackthorn and Elm gets laid to create a hedge, and some of the cut logs and branches get put into the hedge to make it denser. The rest go into a large heap that I just keep adding to.
henrya |