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| Poppy on the armchair wards off any interloping possums who've come to ravage Mum's new ornamental capsicum. |
I never conceived of such deep antipathy for leafy, green goodness, especially not the EDIBLE leafy green goodness of a bay tree, resplendent with enough bay leaves for a nation's generation of sauces, stews and soups.
However abhorrence is what I feel, and I have no desire to put lipstick on THIS pig.
The bay tree works as a [claustrophobic] screen between us and our own fence, which is at least 1.8m from the rail and beyond that, our neighbours.
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| Underneath. The space between the tree and the fence where dwells the pool filter. |
A family of trunks to the left (wedged in by yet another ugly, horrible pencil pine) extend across the 5 or 6 metres of balcony.
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| The monster's trunk. There's a "workshop" under the verandah, rendered useless due to lack of light, due to the dense canopy of leaves. Oh, and there's more planks of wood under here too... |
The beast is unarguably out of control.
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| The canopy inspired by the Amazon Basin |
My urge is to remove the thing altogether, replacing the screening element with clumping bamboo.
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| Fargesia Robusta : photo copyright Noah Bell, Bamboo Garden |
And/or doing something along these lines
and if its possible, relocating the very VERY well established jasmine to "stink it up" as Milo so lyrically puts it.
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| The jasmine currently owns the railing on the south side of the balcony... |
I swear, the place is a jungle.
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