Well, with a bit of a cooler change in the weather, the time had come to cut out all the dead parts of this heat damaged bush... with the hopes that it would recover and regrow the bits had wilted and dried out in the harsh summer heat of the past few weeks. Who knows if it will take... or if it will kill the bush completely... but it is worth trying, and if it dies... then it dies, but if it can be gently coaxed back then that would be a much better outcome.

The tricky part was that it was the central stem and most of the middle area that had dried out and died... leaving it bald on the top, but with healthy side growths that seem to have been shielded from the the worst of the direct Sun. So, there is a chance that this bush might end up growing in a way that is more fat and wide, rather than up and bushy. Not ideal for what we had in mind for this row... but again, perhaps it is just a thing that will just take time to slowly heal and regain a semblance of normality!

I was pretty harsh with the cutting, the last time I did something similar to a different diseased bush, it did end up dying... but for the moment, I have high hopes for this one.

... and on a slightly different note. My wife was trenching out some hard clay and rocky earth to get a garden divider in... so that we would have some garden space near the house, and then a rock path between the garden divider and the retaining wall.

... and she struck a cable, which is really close to where our mains electricity is! Only a handful of centimetres down... but due to the location, we thought that we should call the electricty company straight away!

It was a bit of a scare, and the person that came out didn't help with that... chiding us for digging in the area... but after about 2 hours of phone time back to the home base, he was allowed to dig and trace the mains power... which turned out to NOT be this... and it appears that this was just a scrap piece of cable that was left by previous workmen!

Phew... a bit of a scare, but as the electricity guy told us... if it was the real thing, it would be likely you would be a smoking wreck! And then he told us to change our garden edging plans...

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