Hardy Laurel

A slightly milder day - though more cold weather is forecast, - so it was a good and pleasant  opportunity to spend several hours  out of doors.

Much of the time was devoted to  cutting back a laurel bush which we planted many years ago when it was very tiny , but which has spread dramatically - sideways and upwards -  over the years to the extent that it has  grown over a wall which it was obscuring and in one place at least it had started rooting through the stones.  .

The collage shows the progress from what it was this first thing this morning , to what  it is now - shorn and with the bulk of it waiting to be burnt. 
 
The bush looks a bit bare at present  but it will come back and no doubt need to be cut again at some stage !   It is hardy after all......