Yesterday went to 60th Anniversary day at Weasdale Nurseries near Newbiggin. Andrew Forsyth has amazing place - got trees from there. (Also went as won Third Prize in tree poetry competition for poem about Ansel Adams' monochrome picture of Aspens)
Otherwise we have oak and horse chestnut, willow and sallow at the periphery, and cherry, rowan, hazel, hawthorn, blackthorn, elder and of course sycamore.
We have planted, lilac, ornamental cherries, sumach, liquidambar, hammamelis, broom, white birch, weeping and contorted willow, brown birch, weeping silver pear, eucalyptus, indian horse chestnut, purple prunus, cercidiphyllum, damsons, conference pear, bramley apple, victoria plum, magnolia soulangiana, stellata and grandiflora, flowering currant, privet, rhododendron, azaleas, beech and copper beech, crab apple, buddleia and a host of other shrubs.
One attempt at something different is to create a willow tunnel by weaving living osiers together.
The list goes on and I await the growth of all these.
They have been carefully placed but not with an advanced plan.
It is so important to protect the open space in the garden and not fill the whole place with shrubbery - even this means large areas of unkempt grass.
I hope that as they grow we do not find ourselves in the middle of a dark wood!
So far so good.
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