Hedge Fun

I had a gliding instructing break yesterday, but apart from that it's been gardening all the way.  You can see the emerging kitchen garden here:

I have made all the edging boards but it's darned hard work fitting them due to the high flint content.  The sharper amongst you will work out that this applies to digging the beds over too, but I'm trying quite hard not to think about that.  The top foot or so is imported topsoil and/or home-made compost so we'll leave the spuds and worms to do the hard work below that!  You can see the apple trees and greengage in the bed along the wall (see the stick, imagine the espalier)

The hazels have been planted up on the front bank - two of them, one to grow on as a tree and the other to coppice; between them they should hide the electricity pole as well as satisfying the Planning Condition.  You can see in the picture on the right that we have a brand-new beech hedge along the fence to the stable yard - Alan cleared and dug the right hand side while I was instructing yesterday so it was mostly just a matter of planting today although we had to do a bit of shuffling of the remaining stuff in the parking bed on the left.  Somehow its impact is disproportionate to its size - I don't think this comes across in the photo but it looks very fine. 
You can just see the pile of twigs on the right that is an ex-elder that was on the corner of the stable yard - Alan enlisted Charlie next door and his chainsaw to deal with it.  I stepped out of the door just in time to see the tree come crashing down, missing the house by - literally - 1".  The boys had the decency to look slightly sheepish for a couple of minutes at least.
And finally, the row of radish I sowed last week has germinated, proving beyond all doubt that spring is here.  Hurrah!