With a garden full of ornamental grasses, any urge to get out to tidy up, and cut back, has been severely curtailed, due to their ability to provide a winter full of interest from our lounge window.

  • Perennial watching on a wet day, from inside .

However.. it is now time to cut back those stems and make way for the new growing season.

The cut material ended up on our kitchen windowcill, as I still think the stems look fantastic – they may well be there for some time.

The willow was coppiced in Eleanor’s garden on Monday, and a small mountain of cuttings were made. They were inserted back into the earth with one of the sharpest tools in my box – a Japanese tool referred to as a hori hori. Over the next few months these cuttings should hopefully root to make a new hedgeline – heres hoping

A note was left to explain what I had been upto – as there were literally dozens and dozens of sticks, stuck in the ground… I will check in on them when I am there again next Monday.