WINTER  2006/7

A  FEW  DISASTERS

 November came and went with the usual Autumn colours. December brought a hard frost. We wondered how the plants would survive. But they managed. The blossoms on the viburnum looked like sugar crystals.

On the afternoon of January 18th we had 'The Gale' when the lamp post, which hadn't moved for fourteen years, blew over, the growhouses were uprooted and the new greenhouse collapsed, complete with staging and auriculas.

All we had left was a pile of metal and a few panes of glass

January brought snow and although it only lasted for a few days there was enough to build snowmen.

The clear-up took quite a while and although the greenhouse was the main loss the glorious Sundance bush had to be cut down, but at least the corner gets more light now.

February turned out to be very mild and suddenly signs of Spring were everywhere so perhaps the winter wasn't too much of a disaster after all.