Here is another image for you to comment on. This panoramic view was captured for me recently, again with thanks to Les Binns, as I still have no suitable footwear for use in the Wild Garden.
If you know what has happened to those trees in the centre, featuring yellow twigs, please send your suggestion to me by email, and if your answer is correct you will be entered into a draw on 15th June for a small prize, which the winner can select from a few Lincolnshire companies .
Sadly, there wasn't a single suggestion as to the answer to the above question, so here is the answer: This row of young willow saplings was probably introduced to the Wild Garden about 20 years ago, soon after we moved here permanently in 2000. There is a land drainage stream the length of the section of railway embankment, so willows would have been an obvious species for us to introduce but the trees can rapidly get out of control. One solution is to "pollard" them annually, and as a result one gets fine yellow-coloured twigs which look attractive to us, and also stop the trees outgrowing their space.
This recently happened to a tree that was growing in the River Witham just to the side of the bridge across the beck, and the appropriate Authority employed a couple of chaps to remove a beautiful weeping willow tree that was forcing its growth against the stones of the bridge that is now over 180 years old. The men kindly moved the logs on to my land beside the old Workshop which originally housed the steam engine prior to the updating of drainage to electricity, and in due course this timber will heat the water in my cottage.
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