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Our First Month at Waterloo Farm

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Crikey, it’s ages since we last blogged but we have been pretty busy ;) We had a massive push in the last 10 days or so before moving in to get the place habitable so lots of time getting floor boards back down, laying some off-cuts of carpet around the place, curtains up in the bedrooms at least, generally tidying up, cleaning, finishing off the last few bits of 2nd fix plumbing and electrics, getting the rubbish outside sorted out etc. A big thank you to everyone who lent a hand during this period to ensure we hit our ‘end of March’ deadline, especially to Richard, Helen and Beth who gave up a Saturday morning to help us! So, we finally moved in on March 30th and it feels so good to be here at last … let the dream begin to become a reality!

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Will the Dwarf Weeping Willow Survive????

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I planted my dwarf weeping willow into a random spot in the garden about 3 weeks ago and am really hoping it will survive (read the story of it’s transplantation here). Well, it’s very hard to tell how it’s doing because clearly it’s Autumn and trees don’t always look their best at this time of year, but as you can see it is looking very sorry for itself :(   However, the buds are still looking reasonably healthy and some of the pussy willows are actually coming out now so there may be hope for it yet … will keep my eye on it …

The baby oaks aren’t looking too hot either, but again it is Autumn. Am I being overly optimistic perhaps?

On a positive note, 7 of the home-harvested sweet pea seeds I planted have germinated and are doing very well on their sunny little windowsill so it’s not all doom and gloom on the plant front :)

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From Little Acorns …

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

I love trees! I feel really privileged to now have a garden with some large specimen trees already in place (a gorgeous copper beech, some large sycamores and even a couple of grand old oaks!), but I’m dying to plant some more! I realise that maybe in my lifetime trees we plant now will probably not reach their full potential, but then it’s not just about us but also about future generations. You may remember from an earlier post that we have a lot of self-sown oak trees in the bottom paddock and that we had planned to dig some up and put them in pots and see how we get on with them. Well, that was another thing I did on Saturday afternoon in the glorious sunshine – we went on an Oak hunt! I dug up 5 in total; four are small and a couple of them look a bit sorry for themselves, but that might just be the time of year – it is Autumn after all! However I was extremely chuffed to find a rather larger one (around 40cm) which had grown very close to the hedge and had therefore survived past grass cutting, hence it’s height. It looks very healthy at the moment so let’s hope it stays that way! (more…)

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From Little Acorns to Self-Sown Oak Trees!

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Baby Oak TreeThis might sound sad but I am really excited and thrilled to be the owner of some trees! What is great is that we have found a lot of self-sown oak trees in the bottom paddock. We need to get the paddock topped before we can get the mower, or the kids, on it as it is very deep, thick grass which makes walking on it rather treacherous. However, before we top it we shall definitely be transplanting some of these baby oaks for other parts of the garden. Just in case any of our friends or site visitors want one please let us know.

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