More autumn pruning of my garden hedges in Keswick to trim the spike growth and maintain the illusion that the garden is a seamless part of the Lake District countryside. Protection very necessary against the sharp needles on this Juniperus horizontalis, it smells like Juniper but grows and spreads as rapidly as a Leylandi, except that it stays low.
The ground-feeding birds - Dunnocks, Robins, Blackbirds, Thrush etc - appreciate my clearing the ground level where they can hide from the carnivore birds - Magpies, Rooks, Crows, Jackdaws etc - which threaten them. I distribute the cut branches for the insects but smaller cuttings don’t shred well so they end up bagged for a trip in the car to the council tip at Flusco Wood.