This week my husband obtained some more self-seeded holly weeded out from a customer's garden. I was trying to bring shape to her overgrown thicket of snowberries (Symphoricarpos).
The holly was destined for a home grown 'shrubbery' on a corner of our plot in front of the 'new fence'. We hope the plants will eventually fill out and flourish. At the back are various pieces of old fencing where we are re-establishing the honeysuckle which was dislodged by the 'new fence'. Then come a row of four tiny holly saplings. Positioned in a gap is a dwarf conifer that we once used as a substitute Christmas tree. Then an unwanted rhododendron from the customer with the snowberries - it had grown out laterally from the parent plant and rooted in - two jostaberries propagated from cuttings and finally a damson tree which is a transplanted offshoot of our large established tree. All, save the conifer, obtained free of charge.
As I look at our 'pocket handkerchief' shrubbery it brings me great pleasure. The paid work of pruning is never entirely done. But here, in small scale, is our own miniature and manageable shrubbery.
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