I was elsewhere for this one - thanks to Daniel for text and photo
Five of us made the trip down the M6 today to Shugborough. Joe Hawkins, head gardener, gave us his usual warm welcome, aswell as providing us with pineapple & apricot cake from the tearoom! Joe had recently returned from a three-week holiday in China where he'd visited the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Beijing. He had a lot of interesting tales to tell.
We did two worktasks during the day, one either side of lunch. In the morning we cut back branches from yew trees next to the coach house. This involved ladder climbing - a first for me in all my days with MNTV! After a picnic lunch on the banks of the River Sow we spent a couple of hours liberating a stretch of iron fencing on the edge of the car park from the holly, rhody and oaks that smothered it. Revived by ice creams (thanks Tim!) we wandered back to the cars via the marquees of the "People & Pets" weekend event. For pets read dogs...and a few ferrets!
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