Yes you read right snow removal! Most of my first week on woody department has been spent removing leaves from the pinetum and the rest of the garden. I have been blowing off paths with the leaf blower and loading them up to be hauled away. Also since most of the leaves have now fallen I have been taking down leaf fencing. In Wisconsin we put up snow fence to prevent the drifting of snow well here at Wisley Gardens they put up small fences around their beds to prevent the leaves from blowing into the beds. Pretty cool idea! Back to the snow I was walking to work this morning and it was rather chilly and about half way to work there was some sort of precipitation falling from the sky and by the time I reached the mess room it was proper snowing. It was such a nice sight to see! I snapped a few photos, my first England snow!!! The snow only amounted to a small dusting, but the gardeners headed out in full force to take care of it. Armed with brooms, blowers, and ice melt two hours later we had the snow contained. I was lucky enough to get a blower so I got the blow some paths in the snow. It was a bit over kill but very fun. By this afternoon however pretty much all our lovely snow was gone:( It was nice while it lasted though. A few weekends ago a very large sweet chestnut fell down in the garden most of the tree was removed right away but the root still needs to be removed. Our task was to break the remaining massive roots so the arboriculture team can come and take care of it. The stump is massive and weighs a ton so it will still be quite the project to get it taken care off.
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