Pyracantha hedge idea...

For a while now I'd been thinking that I'd like the front garden boundary to be more than just the place where the gravel meets the road, so when I saw that the hedge of a neighbour down the road needed a prune I knocked on the door and asked if I could take some cuttings.

I went to get the cuttings today and came back with plenty of stab wounds and scratches, even though I'd worn gloves.

This is the handle of the spade that I've used to try and make a trench for the cuttings... not a very good tool but it's all I've got apart from a small fork and trowel.  But in any case the ground is so hard and compacted, and very stoney too - probably from all the gravel that's got round the edge of the membrane and been trodden in, that I could only make a 3" deep trench.  Not nearly deep enough.

I'd imagined a neat little hedge going from the garden path on the left over to the parking slabs on the right, but in reality it looks rather silly, especially as there's no room to put more hedge the other side of the parking area.

I've resisted the temptation to pull them all out and think I'll wait and see what happens.  I've also put as many cuttings again into the actual garden, which is a strip to the left of the path, just in case I needed any more...  I don't think I'm going to though!