It's almost exactly one year since we planted the trees. This time last year it was wet with soft ground which made the planting easy; our current cold snap would have caused us to put it off. The trees did well until the very dry spell in October when it appeared that several had died, with one or two sitting in cracks in the heavy clay unable to find moisture as the roots had barely formed. However, we are hoping that some of the ones I thought might have died will show shoots in the spring and so we have left them in place. I intend to take an anual photo so that we can monitor progress over the years.Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Trees 1 year on
It's almost exactly one year since we planted the trees. This time last year it was wet with soft ground which made the planting easy; our current cold snap would have caused us to put it off. The trees did well until the very dry spell in October when it appeared that several had died, with one or two sitting in cracks in the heavy clay unable to find moisture as the roots had barely formed. However, we are hoping that some of the ones I thought might have died will show shoots in the spring and so we have left them in place. I intend to take an anual photo so that we can monitor progress over the years.
