Wind, rain and more rain
Our garden was mercifully unscathed by Thursday's storm, but less than a mile away several huge beech trees came down, one right next to a bungalow which now looks like a doll's house compared with the vast tree-corpse which lies next to it. At the nursery we've lost a couple of small oaks near the stream and one eucalyptus in the garden. I'm not bothered - the garden actually looks better for it. Astonishingly the polytunnels were almost completely unscathed.Between 1st November 2005 and 31st January 2006 we had 136mm of rain here. For the same period this year but only up to today, i.e. 9 days shorter, we have had 347mm of rain. Even with our light sandy soil it's been close to impossible to get outside much. Perhaps even more significantly it has been warmer this year than last year for 63 days out of the last 80.
I mentioned the nursery. Yes, it's getting closer - hopefully the purchase will go through in Feb. I'm there three days a week now, just tidying, organising and getting my head round it. I going to have to take some plug buying decisions soon as the nursery re-opens in 8 weeks. Just to add to the pressure I have my first RHS Advanced exam on the 6th Feb and since we have now sold our house we need to clear out 10 years of accumulated stuff. It's going to be a very, very busy few weeks. No pictures today - maybe tomorrow..
posted by Sue Beesley @ 3:19 pm
4 Comments:
Hi Trillium,
Lodge Lane looks lovely, hope everything is going ok with it all, might get to pop up one day, my parents live in Preston which I don't think is too far away...
Hello Trillium - it's Greentapestry from the BBC Gardening Message Boards - have just seen your last post on your 'A Strange Question' thread. Will be pleased to help if I can.
Interesting to see your stats on all the wet stuff we've had this winter. I am thinking of going into commercial moss farming.
Hi Anna,
Would you drop me an email on beesley_sue@hotmail.com? I can't post my email address on the MB, but I can here, and I'd rather talk about the nursery by email than on this public blog! Hope that all makes sense - sorry for the wildgoose chase...
Hello Trillium - have just emailed you.
- Anna.
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