January 2022 - that new year feeling
I’ve been busy at the wood clearing up from Storm Arwen. I will leave trees in their fallen position and see if they continue to thrive - horizontal - which they seem to be able to do when the root plate is still in the ground. I'll monitor what grows or lives in the space left by the root plates which create new spaces for flora and fauna and can be a boon for biodiversity. One lovely oak tree with a trunk the of 2m in circumference, which by my ready reckoner from the Woodland Trust dates from the second world war (80 years old), has fallen across a fence with my neighbour to the east. Happily this fence will be replaced with a deer fence later this year. For now I just need to cut the fallen branches so there is a space between our pieces of land which will enable the contractor to add the new fence. That isn’t immediately possible as there is a tangle of big and small branches entwined in branches of trees fallen on both sides of the fence. I have worked systematically (if ine