Where is Spring?

Just finished my breakfast and heard an 18 ton lorry pull up outside the house. At last my Pleached Hornbeam had arrived and I quickly got outside and greeted the driver. These trees are large with a 2.4m clear steam with huge heads and root balled (also huge), and to be honest hugely expensive; is it worth the cost I asked myself and the answer is yes as I haven’t got the next 15years to spend growing and pruning hornbeam myself. I have bought and planted many large tree and specimen shrubs for clients over the years but this is the very first time I have made such a purchase, a kind of present for almost killing myself last year with the pressures of work!

At last the first lawn was possible over the weekend and the process is always signifies the start of spring to me; a few runs with the mower and the garden begins to look better and in turn I feel my spirits lift. I didn’t stop there as the rest of the afternoon was spent weeding in the warm sunshine which is a process I enjoy; some of my staff hate weeding but I really can’t understand why…perhaps its a case a simple things pleasing simple minds!