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There are a couple of regions in our garden where bushes had been allowed to grow forwards before we bought the house. I continued just pruning them from the front but never tackled the underlying problem….the bushes had grown forwards one heck of a lot and had taken over a good amount of extra room.
One solution, which I used, was to ‘hollow’ out the inside of some of the bushes and create the village/township of ‘Arrowhead’ and its trackage. Another was to cut away some of the lower front of the bushes use the space underneath the overhang to build up the township of ‘PointRock’
But in other places it was also very easy to just ignore the untidy back of the bushes as the front looked fine!
But things were getting out of hand…things were not fine anymore. The bushes in one section were just not looking good all and they were causing problems for the railroad!…….
So armed with saw and secateurs, I forced my way into the jungle behind the offending flora and hacking begun. Although I tried to salvage some of the bushes, they had grown so far forwards that some could not take the pulling back and had to go completely.
The intention was to create a new planting area but things rail related also came to mind…..maybe the addition of a spiral for the local line?
[size=14pt]The bushes as they were between ‘Arbour Summit’ and ‘PointRock’
Showing behind some open day guests[/size]
[size=14pt]Now just a few surviving bushes remain[/size]
[size=14pt]The black pipe that can be seen in some photos is not the mains electricity feed to the decking as someone thought, but is the irrigation feed that goes around the garden.[/size]
[size=14pt]PointRock’s coaling tower was being consumed by a ‘hypericum’ which had made a tunnel over the twin tracks[/size]
[size=14pt]The tower now stands bare[/size]
[size=14pt] Gone is an old dead elder tree, lashed back is the remaining part of the hypericum and gone is a ton of twigs, branches and leaf litter.
[size=14pt]With bits of old track and a few pieces of rock, a plan of a spiral, with an underpass, grew.
The local line had a heavy incline already at this point and so the spiral would ‘assimilate’ this, and hopefully spread the incline over a greater distance.[/size]
[size=14pt]The only problem was that there was going to have to be a 10” clearance under the bridge!
The sprit level shows that the newly elevated section to the bridge is about level but there still needs to be another extra 2” of elevation for the bridge to have the correct clearance.[/size]
One solution, which I used, was to ‘hollow’ out the inside of some of the bushes and create the village/township of ‘Arrowhead’ and its trackage. Another was to cut away some of the lower front of the bushes use the space underneath the overhang to build up the township of ‘PointRock’
But in other places it was also very easy to just ignore the untidy back of the bushes as the front looked fine!
But things were getting out of hand…things were not fine anymore. The bushes in one section were just not looking good all and they were causing problems for the railroad!…….
So armed with saw and secateurs, I forced my way into the jungle behind the offending flora and hacking begun. Although I tried to salvage some of the bushes, they had grown so far forwards that some could not take the pulling back and had to go completely.
The intention was to create a new planting area but things rail related also came to mind…..maybe the addition of a spiral for the local line?
[size=14pt]The bushes as they were between ‘Arbour Summit’ and ‘PointRock’
Showing behind some open day guests[/size]
[size=14pt]Now just a few surviving bushes remain[/size]
[size=14pt]The black pipe that can be seen in some photos is not the mains electricity feed to the decking as someone thought, but is the irrigation feed that goes around the garden.[/size]
[size=14pt]PointRock’s coaling tower was being consumed by a ‘hypericum’ which had made a tunnel over the twin tracks[/size]
[size=14pt]The tower now stands bare[/size]
[size=14pt] Gone is an old dead elder tree, lashed back is the remaining part of the hypericum and gone is a ton of twigs, branches and leaf litter.
[size=14pt]With bits of old track and a few pieces of rock, a plan of a spiral, with an underpass, grew.
The local line had a heavy incline already at this point and so the spiral would ‘assimilate’ this, and hopefully spread the incline over a greater distance.[/size]
[size=14pt]The only problem was that there was going to have to be a 10” clearance under the bridge!
The sprit level shows that the newly elevated section to the bridge is about level but there still needs to be another extra 2” of elevation for the bridge to have the correct clearance.[/size]
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