In the Gateway of Top Hay field
Two years since planting the Sibley apple tree now standing 8ft. high in First Meadow.
Crow Meadow ferns amidst thick bluebells with possibly the site’s oldest oak just beyond the in-bloom hawthorn.
Beech tree planted from a pot kept in a Penzance yard until 2003 when Liz thought it a good spot in the shelter of the adjacent gorse. Originally collected as sprouted coteledons from Trevaylor woods by Paul on a walk with Sarah in 1995. Grown on in fish crates with some 80 others for a couple of years at Helnoweth, most planted out into hedgerows there.
Some hand weeding of seed trenches reveal
Seeds into trenches were Ash last Easter, Chestnuts and Birch in the early Autumn. Birch seeds were from the upper branches of a 30 ft. tree taken down in a Surrey garden. Thanks Sue. As well as planting it’s seeds we also made the most of the wood some being made into Besoms for the family including a small one for our new niece Daisy born on the day we felled the tree.
Having taken down two sections of 10 ft we were unable to get a saw behind the remaining pollard. This Spring it unexpectedly began to regrow.
