A few recent comments From Portland, Oregon and Holland have led me to wonder where those following my blog are from. I never thought that this online diary would get visitors from so far and wide an audience.
I know I probably post to much, I even take stick for it now and again 🙂 but I must say I am loving the experience of it at the moment. I look closer at my trees and it certainly helps me keep a better photographic record of my trees!!
At some point work and the seasons will probably slow down my posting. Until them you’ll just have to put up with it lol.
Stick a comment on here and let me know where you are reading from. It should go without saying, if any of you are ever in Northern Ireland, you have an open invitation to come and see my trees for your self.
Thanks for reading.

Weak buds.
A few branches looked dead and after a quick scrape, this was confirmed and I removed them.
This branch is actually a bud that has opened year on year but never extended. You can actually see the the tiny rings from each year. I have seen this on yamadori Hawthorn, but never a field maple.








A Rhodoypoxis starting to show, I thought I had lost them all during the Winter.
Daisy 🙂
and the new guys on the block!


