The recent Storm Darragh turned out to be quite a handful. Tracking right across the UK and Ireland in an unusual direction from the NW to SE with sustained northerly gales over a day or so there were the inevitable casualties in an old woodland garden. Luckily the collection survived fairly much intact with a bit of help from us to heave a couple of things back upright.

The Ginkgo was looking terrific, a perfect 100’ tower of yellow and then the next thing it had all of its coat knocked off in 24 hours. Quite a sight on the floor as can be seen in the attached image. The northerly also blew all the deciduous oak and lime leaves in the park down the hill against the fence at the bottom about 3 feet deep. As we are making nearly all our compost now this was a great result and meant we could shovel trailer loads into the leaf bin and also fill a few tonne bags as well, all good!