An Ill Wind

 The recent storm 'Barbara' didn't affect us too much ... except it precipitated an old tree in the Alley finally succumbing.  It fell across the alley but was being held up by trees on the other side.  So I had a little job of cutting it down and chopping it up.  (We used the trunk to extend the 'bed' along the alley)

But yesterday, whilst we were out visiting a friend, there must have been a stormy shower with winds and this morning we discovered another tree which came from the same root-stock was now down!

 

As you can see there is a third tree 'hung up' waiting to fall, but I'll try to deal with the one that's already down first!

However, this job is on the back-boiler as we have spent the day planting bulbs ... 750 daffodils.  But, thanks to a tool which we saw on one of the many gardening videos we watch, we were able to plant all in one day!  You can see it in action on this video!

https://youtu.be/1_cwArTKpYE 

 We have planted 100 bulbs around each of our Purple Sycamores ...

... and then a further 450 along the bank of the alley.

We have realised these days that, as our soil is so stony, it is difficult to plant the bulbs at any depth and, with the extremely dry summers we now have, the bulbs do not prosper.  We treat them almost as annuals.  If we get a second year's display that is a bonus!

The weather forecast is dry again tomorrow so we will be out there planting tulips, alliums and Asiatic lillies and we will keep our fingers crossed for a lovely Spring show.