Thinking caps on please!

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We have lived here for just over twenty years, the bungalow behind ours was recently sold, so we now have a new owner there. He was demolishing the garden shed a few weeks ago while I was outdoors and told me he’s a property developer but plans to live in this one, rather than refurbish and sell it.

I said that if any of our shrubs and/or trees overhung to his garden he was welcome to cut them back. He just said ‘Ok’.

This is the garden where the wonderful Plum trees used to grow, long standing GoY folk may remember the Plum Cake recipe I posted a blog about!

Sadly, those trees were felled a couple of years ago and nothing replaced them, but two weeks ago this began to take shape.

I asked if the back of the building, which we now see but he doesn’t, will be finished soon and he said ’I’ve put some battens on to pretty it up for you! Sarcasm I can do without.

You can imagine seeing this from the lounge patio doors, from the seats under the vine pergola, in fact it’s just ‘there’ all the time, a monstrosity.

We have now got to really think long and hard about how best to disguise it, either with plants, grasses, trees, trellis to train a climber on. The Pyracanthas have always been kept trimmed to the top of the fence, but I wish now that I had let them grow and grow, for obvious reasons.

There we are, what would you do about disguising this? Moving home is not an option!

• 1 May, 2025
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