Good to see this fatsia bouncing back after pruning with lots of glossy green leaves

After removing a smothering honeysuckle in February we found the skeleton of a cotoneaster, happily a few months later it’s beginning to put leaves on

Champagne,cordial,wine an effervescent flower

We are working with an artist to provide coppiced Hazel and willow for their installation, here’s the model of the larger structure to be built over the summer.

Daldinia centrica , resembling the burnt buns of King Alfred, a fungus that grows and breaks down dead wood, keep an eye out for this especially on standing trees

Here a tree is felled with a technical cut that releases the tension inside the trunk of a leaning tree so the tree doesn’t split as it’s felled .

We’re helping on an art project to make a bird hide type structure , here’s the model made from coppiced Hazel and willow

Lovely colours coming on now especially this Acer strikingly red against the green around it.