Our first big disappointment of the project hit this week. After a day of back-breaking work, and meticulous-bordering-on-obsessive watering by Jodes, our newly planted hedge has been beset by frost. The black leaves cut a decidedly unpalatable picture and we are (without wishing to exaggerate) verging on heartbroken.
General opinion was that this was the wrong time of year to plant the hedge because the recent warm weather would make us a slave to the hose, but we failed to consider the silent killer around the corner that came in the shape of a ground frost on Tuesday night.
We're hoping the plants are fighting for life underneath the morbid leaves, and we will continue to look after them in the vain hope that some TLC will restore them to their previous (albeit 1 foot) glory.
I'm sure your thoughts are with us - will keep you posted on the patients' progress...
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