From Field To Woodland

 It is funny when you day dream about something , and then you worry (or I do) whether it will live up to expectations. I dreamed about our first "real planting day" - planting days like the ones I have done years ago, with the Woodland Trust and the Heart of England Forest, where dozens of trees are planted and a woodland actual starts. This dream has gone on for years, but it has been much more in my thoughts this year for obvious reasons.  That dream planting day came all of a sudden, and to a certain extent took me by surprise. I got an email from a tree supplier to say "your order has been despatched". It didn't say which order (25 trees or 45 trees - or both).  In my head, trees wouldn't start to arrive until the really cold weather in the New Year. It still feels (and is) absurdly warm - which is a worry for climate change reasons. I had imagined that I would have all the paths marked out before  tree arrived - but no, trees were arriving very soon. T...

 Sometimes when you day-dream about something for years, when the time comes, it isn't quite as good as you imagine it. I know that the day I get to take to the stage with the Foo-Fighters, my windmill guitar moves won't be as wild as I have imagined. It will be great, but not quite  as the dream.  Occasionally though, stuff does work out as you hoped. Today was one of those days. I had planned to plant some daffodils as you walk into the field. I know thad daffodils isn't a wild woodland thing, but it is nice right - and I want it to be nice. In 50 years time when I am nothing but a skeleton under some of the trees, nature can decide if the daffs belong or not, but for now, they belong. I am over-ruling nature in the short term.  On this basis, I ordered myself some "bulk" bulbs. How many is enough? How much qualifies as bulk ? I went for 25kg. If I had too many, I could always give some away, too few, order some more. £44.39 well spent (including delivery).  J...