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Do a New Thing for Spring - 2021 Anniversary Edition

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Sharkie Mar 2021 11:10am, 6 Mar 2021 17,553 posts	0 Sharkie We have a beautiful silver birch and Raffo added a mountain ash and a hornbeam - oh and loads of fruit trees: apple, pear, plum and cherry. Lilac, and holly, hawthorn and dog rose in our hedge. We also inherited a gingko tree right at the back.
Sharkie Mar 2021 11:13am, 6 Mar 2021 17,554 posts	0 Sharkie We have s MAD tree in the fornt garden that Raffo's MAD sister bought him. It's a medlar tree. We sing 'Grow, grow the medlar tree, What a nice gift from the mad Lindeeeee.' You need to be a certain age to recognise the song source.
WA Mar 2021 11:13am, 6 Mar 2021 8,446 posts	0 WA We had to cut the hornbeam down in our previous house because it was deemed unsafe We have a stunted apple tree, it gets a bit too windy up here for trees to thrive.
Sharkie Mar 2021 11:20am, 6 Mar 2021 17,555 posts	0 Sharkie Raffo says don't forget the MASSIVE holly tree, crab apple, and the hedge also has blackthorn, eleagnus, azara, and various bushes like acers. But he can clear off out of my thread
Sharkie Mar 2021 11:22am, 6 Mar 2021 17,556 posts	0 Sharkie HOWEVER ALL gardening, plant, wildflower, crops and growing things news, sightings and doings welcomed!
jda Mar 2021 11:23am, 6 Mar 2021 9,578 posts	0 jda I planted out two baby monkey puzzles last year, grown from seed picked up in a stately home, I'm banking on them being someone else's problem in a few decades when they are large enough to be troublesome
Limegreenjelly Mar 2021 11:30am, 6 Mar 2021 274 posts	0 Limegreenjelly I only have a ‘yarden’ but all this talk of trees had me looking at eucalyptus in pots!
LindsD Mar 2021 11:34am, 6 Mar 2021 45,479 posts	0 LindsD Don't think we've got any trees. We had 10 leylandii that OH and my Dad cut down the day I went into labour.
Sharkie Mar 2021 11:41am, 6 Mar 2021 17,558 posts	0 Sharkie Quite right too. Leylandii have their place but it's rarely in a domestic garden.
Naughty_nickers Mar 2021 11:46am, 6 Mar 2021 338 posts	0 Naughty_nickers Sharkie it's a week today that we can be released. 😞

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The sixth running of Do a New Thing for Spring

Lent has a special and specific meaning to Christians but has become an secular season of denial and hair shirting that serves no positve purpose. No chocolate, no booze, no -er - other stuff.

Why not treat the build up to Easter - as a chance to celebrate and embrace NEW THINGS - that's what spring is about after all.

The first few pages of the thread give more ideas.

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