Thanks for all the comments. Most appreciated. Am very much looking forward to playing with it, so it should appear in many more photos (though I also have to work out how to store it dust free .....
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That has turned out very well indeed. Good idea on the birch, it's very effective.
Thanks Steve but I don’t think I can claim the idea of a birch. I was somewhat fixated on a sweet chestnut and I think James (OshiroModels) was the first to suggest birch. In my determination for sweet chestnut I resisted (wasting time and money in the process
) but I took the right path in the end.
. Incidentally, the bushes in the walls were I think originally suggested by you, as indeed was taking bolder vegetation to the top of the main arch - both of which I initially resisted but were great calls.