Workers have begun the ‘world’s toughest gardening job’ by using a cherry picker to painstakingly trim the 300-year-old hedges at a historic castle. Brave gardener Dan Bull will spend the next two months undertaking the mammoth task at Powis Castle in Welshpool, mid Wales. Dan uses a hydraulic cherry-picker with a pair of electric shears to prune the gigantic 55ft (16m) yew hedge at the National Trust venue. It will take around eight weeks for the gardener to clip all the topiary ‘tumps’ back into their familiar cloud-like shape and keep them in pristine condition.
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