The Garden at Moorfield Journal: 6
Time flies.....when you're planting trees. 17.02.2023
They say, the best time to plant a tree was yesterday.
They, in this instance, being Michael Cooke, a garden designer and plantsman, who once said this to me during one of our many back and forth about all things horticulture and I’ve never forgotten it. It’s why one of the first things I invested in when we arrived here, was trees. Our 12 month anniversary of being handed the keys to Moorfield came around this week and I’ve tallied up a total 50 trees that we’ve put in the ground in that time.
Trees are one of the most valuable assets to a garden, established ones, even more so.
We lucked out at Moorfield, the Fletcher family legacy being 4 huge Ash planted in a stand that blocks all the northerly sun, and its unrelenting white heat of high summer, from the house. It remains remarkably cool for most of the day and therefore, limits how much we need to use an air conditioner in the hottest months. Most of the time a window cracked to just the fly screen and the ceiling fan is enough. In Autumn the Ash are iridescent plumes of the brightest yellow, and in winter, skeletal sculptures with ochre lichen skin, that lets in the light.
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