Sad news - Railway, the feral cat we've been feeding, is dead. He'd been missing for about 4 days and a neighbour found him in the hedge a few hundred yards up the main road.
He'd been hit by a car and the damage was quite extensive, so I can only hope it was instantaneous and someone threw him into the hedge. I went to collect him and Hay buried him in Pet Cemetery in the garden, where there is a couple of dogs and many a cat. Ours was the only home he'd ever known and he'd started to trust us.
We spent part of the weekend cutting willow whips from the willow arbour Hay and her sister created a couple of years ago.
We planted them next to the rear (or is that front?) patio to form a windbreak and to afford some privacy from the neighbours.
Some were planted vertical and others in between the verticals at a 45 degree angles. If they take (and it's rare for them not to), they'll form a lovely, thick willow hedge, or fedge, as it's called.
I bought Hay a book on living willow sculpture - making all manner of garden furniture from living willow whips.
2 comments:
Having seen a cat hit by a car years ago I’d say the impact threw his body into the hedge rather than a person stopping and throwing him.
I'd agree, if it weren't for the hedge being some 20 yards from the road.
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