Happy New Year!!    Into 2012 – and we are pushing on with our work programme.   Besides all the usual stuff – this week has seen us starting our Grafting season.  From now until late March – Liz is locked away in her little shed – splicing together pieces of wood to form new trees in a few months time.

It is a fascinating art – and it is still incredible that a root and a shoot can grow together to form one.  If you would like to learn more about this – we do run a course on grafting where you can come to the nursery – and learn the theory – and then have a go and graft a tree to take home with you!!  Check out the Courses Page.

The weather has changed from one extreme to the other since Christmas – we had several days of gale-force winds which caused some damage on the nursery – mostly minor stuff – but extra hassle!   But most of the time – it has been incredibly mild – and only today – and apparently over the next few days – has it turned colder and frosty.

This is however – an ideal time to plant new trees and shrubs or hedging – the soil is not as wet as it normally would be at this time of the year – so anything planted now will root quickly – and be partly-established before the spring – and get off to a flying start so get cracking!!

UNTIL NEXT TIME,

RICHARD