On the 23rd February we planted the final tree. Somehow it seemed fitting to be a grey, wet, muddy day :-)
Enormously satisfying to look out across the field and see the transformation. OK - so it looks like a field full of green plastic tubes - however, the knowledge that each tube has such potential growing up inside is rather special.
Walking out with the boys is becoming a little boring for them, as I’m stopping every couple of meters to peer down a tube a exclaim ‘I can see a leaf'! Maybe I’ll tire of this, though I doubt it will be any time soon…
Before too long the grass will start to grow, along with (hopefully) the meadow-flowers we seeded a few months ago. We’ll be walking the field and working out what to try and ‘manage’ and where to leave to let nature take it’s course. All the time watching the weather and hoping there is no repeat of the spring drought of last year…
