Dei let it be know on our local community webpage that we would let our weeping cherry go to a new home if the new owners would come dig it out. Well, Sunday afternoon three lovely friendly, polite folk turned up to take it away. A father and two daughters, lovely people. Hope they enjoy the tree as much as we did (until it blocked our view).

Now we can SEE the garden again, firstly the rose garden but also much more. I think I’m going to put a birdbath where the tree was, that should be fun.
We have a great variety of birds in our garden: House Sparrow/Tiu, Starling/Tāringi, Blackbird/Manu Pangu, Song Thrush/Manu-kai-hua-rakau, Fantail/Piwakawaka, Silvereye or wax-eye/tauhou, Greenfinch, Yellowhammer/ Hurukōwhai, Redpoll, Chaffinch/Pahirini, Welcome swallow/Warou, Bellbird/Korimako and Spur-winged Plover. Flying overhead we get Australasian Harriers/Kāhu, Oystercatchers/Tōrea pango, White-faced heron/Matuku moana and many types of gull.

More weeks have passed and more work has been done on the garden. Our internal hedges have been lowered. This allows us to see more around the garden, it gives us a layered view across the garden.