Hedging Our bets

We ordered some Laurel hedging plants off the Internet. I wasn’t quite sure how they were going to turn up, but I was suitably pleased with how they arrived. The courier company kept us updated on the expected delivery, and we made certain we were in to receive them.

We’d ordered ten plants in total, as we need to fill in some gaps in our hedge that have appeared by some fir trees dying off. I’m not certain firs like the hot summers here as I’ve seen a few in other people’s gardens not looking that healthy, so we thought we’d ‘hedge our bets’ and fill the holes with some laurels, which seem to fair much better here, although are not native plants. For delivery, the plants had been wrapped in black cellophane, and all placed together in one box. They arrived in very good condition and I would certainly use them again.

We didn’t waste anytime getting them unwrapped and well watered ready to be planted.

The plan was to use the laurels to fill the gaps the dead fir trees were leaving, so that obviously meant we needed to remove the dead trees first. A couple came out really easy, but there was one at the top near the pool that did not want to budge. So we had to resort to sawing it.