The western edge of the garden had three huge shrubs on it - a myrtle, a bay and a buddleia. They were too huge to deal with, really, so we made the decision to take them out.
Before shots, from a month ago:
We decided that this sort of heavy digging was beyond us, so in the interests of our backs, we paid a company to come and do the removal. They also took out the gnarled buddleia on the other side of the garden. I wanted to keep it, but the roots were making the soil come up in a mound and I can just replace it with a young one.
NB. This is Ian digging, but he was just digging over the soil to get a last root out, I didn't actually make him do hardcore digging!
This is going to be my veg patch! Very exciting. One small snag - the bay hid a large manhole cover. Potentially for the drains. Which probably also means pipework runs underneath. Ugh. Never simple! Manhole cover:
View from Bedroom 4:
(They also took away all our garden waste that had piled up for a bit extra money... phew!)
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