We usually plant a few trees each winter. This year we have concentrated on the back meadow area, which is rather bare and boring during...

Tree Diaries ~ Apr 2021 Julie’s ash – About 5 yrs old The Old Ash – About 120 years old? The arrival of a new tree a few weeks ago has...

Tree Diaries ~March 2021 In this post a month ago I introduced you to our two alder trees, which I’ve nicknamed Al and Glute. Over the...

Tree Diaries ~ Feb 2021 So this is the first in a new series of posts called ‘Tree Diaries’, where I’ll be focussing in on just one tree,...

My post this week is going to reflect my lockdown winter days, where fragments of connection and small jobs in the garden have to be...

A couple of months ago I noticed that some of the huge ‘weeds’ growing in the area we’ve nicknamed the Jungle weren’t dying back like the...

A copper beech, planted Nov 2018. Unlike some of the young trees they are thick with leaves already, and keep them almost all year round....

This is our ash tree. We have just the one, and it’s become a personal favourite of mine – for lots of reasons, but mostly because of the...