Three or four years ago, I planted a little corkscrew willow on a little island in the east pond. Which isn’t news; I’ve written about it before. The little tree liked its little island-home, flourished and grew quickly – as corkscrew willows (Salix matsudana ‘Tortuosa’) are prone to do anyway. And it formed a nice […]
My holidays are often quite adventurous: cycling though the German countryside, hiking across British mountains, bobbing down the Zambezi in a barrel, play-wrestling polar bears on Svalbard – that sort of thing. But this year, Jim and I decided to plump for something a little more conventional, a lot more lazy. A few weeks ago […]
