The retrofitted strim photos

As promised, some better shots of the strimming session this week.

And for those who haven’t ever set foot on this farm, here is the linking shot of the area I want to work on next month.

I’m standing with my back to the potting shed, and looking towards the houses in the far distance. The shade garden with all the shrubs is to the left and the calabert – the barn – is ahead.  And in between what I call the shade garden and the barn garden is a small section of steep granite with a fine covering of festuca grasses and brambles.

Strimmed to within an inch of its life it doesn’t look that bad.  But I’d much rather have the granite rocks.

There is a self sown green gauge (reine claude) tree in the middle which is staying for now.  I have no idea if it will produce any fruit. I doubt it. It’s probably just a nasty unproductive sucker.

But it’s dead useful for grabbing hold of when you are trying to work your way up the steep bank with a strimmer in your hands.

And the duck pond half done. It needs a mow. But looks less of a jungle.

The east side of the farm was briefly called the quince gardem. It didn’t take on as it sounded a bit grand for what is a steep bank with quince trees. Sloping down to a narrow terrace lined with fruit trees – fig, apple and walnut.

And the terrace was once lushly lawned.  Currently it’s in post building site recovery mode.

I usually strim any of the escaping quinces. But this year I have decided to let them grow.  Any vegetation is an improvement on a bare bank.  There are 16 quinces now, lets see if any more of these prove keepers.