My new home has a lovely big paddock of humpy bumpy grass that I've been told once looked like a bowling green. Aye right!
Does grass revert to a rough field if left for 3 years with just the occasional mowing down when it gets to a foot high?
The old guy who owned it before me was ill for a couple of years before he died and family rarely visited before that anyway apparently.
Which brings me to the brambles - a beautiful full flowering rhododendron and a hedge of strong elder trees are being strangled by a bramble conglomeration. With this virus about, and us perhaps in lockdown for months, perhaps i should be grateful for the brambles,
but with neglect over the years and the old wood underfoot I doubt the berries would be any good.
Soooooo ................ slowly, bit by prickly bit, I have been hacking away at the old stems, with a view to burning them some still cool day, but it's a soul destroying job and I'm sure I'll be left with permanent scars.
I wish someone would reassure me that it will all be worth it.