Who knew such a thing was possible?! As age suggests that waiting years for saplings to grow would be a bad idea, here it is – a 2 metre high hornbeam hedge! Plus trees planted: hawthorn ‘Paul’s Scarlet”, multi-stemmed katsura & cornus kousa ‘China Girl’. And beyond the hedge in front of the stable are a gage (dug up from the old allotment and having endured many months in a black bin bag!) and multi-stemmed prunus serrula alongside the established crabapple. Now just waiting for the grass seed to germinate…