Friday wasn't too bad after some heavy overnight rain. A few glimpses of the sun and the temperature, all be it briefly, up to 18°C, it felt a little more like June.
It was one of those days when I was let loose with the secateurs again, this time to tackle one of our bamboo’s.
This is how it looked before pruning although I only remembered to take a picture once I’d started a little pruning so at this stage some canes had already received the chop.
These canes were by the green waste bin ready for recycling when I remembered to take a picture.
The aim of the pruning was to allow some light through the bamboo and instead of having a mass of impenetrable canes to reduce them down to five or six canes which will thicken up and look more like conventional bamboo canes. Most of the canes were around the same thickness similar in diameter to a pencil. I just left around six canes equally spaced amongst the root of the bamboo.
Much secateuring later our bamboo looked like this. We can now see through the canes and view other plants growing in the border behind. It just needs the stems to thicken up a bit now.
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No gardening here again, we had torrential downpours. My daughter's shoes were so wet when she got in from school that they're still drying out on top of the radiator.
ReplyDeleteWe escaped with just a couple of light showers.
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