A spot of pruning

In spite of heavy showers at night and now again, it was dry this afternoon, so I decided to prune a cotoneaster and to shove the dry branches into the Rattletrap to be taken to the dump as and when.





I kept the thick, trunky branches to use as firewood in due course. Plonked them on top of a stump to season.

The place where the cotoneaster was, along with a couple of small holly trees that I also don't want, looks a bit bare now. The plan is to get rid of the breeze blocks and the roots of the trees so I can mow over the edge and get at the rhododendron hedge with a hedge cutter more easily.
There were several cotoneaster seedlings. In a way it's a pity to cut it down as bees like the flowers, but there is more: see the golden cotoneaster at the corner of the terrace behind the stump in the last picture. There's plenty of that.

better view down to the loch too!