Short Back and Sides

We have made a list of jobs to do in the garden during the winter (John's not happy unless he has a list). Amongst the outside jobs is prune/annihilate a number of the trees. As the weather was reasonable this afternoon and the plum tree had lost it's leaves we decided to make a start.

 

Poor little tree we had a bumper crop of plums earlier this year but I fear it will be the last for many a year. John says I have become influenced by the way the French "pollard" their trees. 

Well it hasn't been tidied since the year we moved in.