Tuesday, June 27


In the southern corner of the garden, the shrubs and trees are making up a harmonious whole, I think. From left to right you see a weeping birch, a pillar spruce and a cherry plum tree, all about fifteen years old. In front of them, there's a ten-year-old hedgerow of sand roses or dog roses, if you like, because of the nearness of the sea. They are highly tolerant of seaside salt spray and storms and are often being the first shrubs in from the coast.

Besides cutting back the hedge in early spring (as much as you like) and removing a branch or two from the birch and the plum tree, this corner of the garden doesn't need much looking after. With age, it has also developed very high drought tolerance. Not even the size of the yield of hips and cherry plums seems to be much affected by a dry period although the birds would be better judges of that as they get the greater part of it.

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THE INIMITABLE LILAC TREE

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The late bloom of the small lilac tree is fading. The propensity for self-realization of this little tree is quite astonishing. Having celebrated its finest hour for almost a month, it will soon pass the baton fleury of the box bread to the buttercup yellow of the cinquefoils. They will continue blooming until late autumn, well into the flowering period of the bluebeard.

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