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| A pensive Ben and John look on as Tania is amused and Hap enjoys his cake. Do the alders heavy with berries suggest a harsh winter ahead? |
These trees planted about four years ago are doing well, especially
the Italian alder and some of the birch with a few oak also showing
good growth. However they have been battered by the wind in places and
as the deer are quite a problem here we need
to try and keep the trees straight and as protected as possible, so
spent a rainy but not unpleasant morning straightening up guards and
banging in stakes. Quite few trees were big enough to remove stake and
guard completely so we accumulated a store of useful
spare materials where they were not too damaged. Quite a few stakes
were reused on other trees with broken stakes and the rest were taken
back to the nursery. There is more to do here. We were, Hap, Philip,
Tania, Ben, John and myself. Cake was a delicious
fruit cake. Philip was particularly proud of a new tool belt and I was
excited about using my new camera only to find after taking one group
photo it had run out of memory so had to resort back to my phone for
'the belt'.
Geoff
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| 'The belt' |