I asked my neighbour if I could come into her garden and cut the branches of the buddleia that hang over my garden from their base. As expected she agreed and said I was welcome to cut it all down.
Today I had an hour sawing and then lopping the side bits for easier stacking. I didn't do more as, though I had the stamina to carry on, I didn't want to overdo it and hurt my back and shoulders.
Cutting this bush down will give me morning light in the middle bit of my garden - the vegetable patch. It will also give Dorothy a lot of light in her garden too.
Gardening writers rarely seem to appreciate the problems of lack of light in small urban gardens - I expect because most of them, and their clients if they design gardens, have lovely, big gardens.
Butterflies will miss it, but I only occasionally see them fluttering around it.
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