My favorite correspondent, volunteer and arborist Woody Dukes, sent along these photos of the pruning going on at the Gaiety Hollow garden last Friday.  These photos are his.

Here are Jay and Anne Raney working on the “tall and straggly sarcococca under the dining room bay window…”

with Molly O’Dea packing off the cuttings, here and after pruning the untidy laurel hedge on the alley…

Woody Dukes and Bobby Dolp worked on the osmanthus (on the right over the cart) west of the holly hedge.  They hand-pruned instead of the shearing that worked for the holly hedge.

Woody says that last week Gretchen Carnaby worked to get the rose on the alley fence back in bounds…here’s what it looked like in the summer:

and here when Gretchen finished…

Stay tuned for the pruning of the camellias and rhododendrons as weather permits…