Spring in the Gardens, Fruit Trees in Blossom and Ground Covers
Just one week to go before the arrival of our 2019 Polyculture Study team and we're getting ready and looking forward to another productive year in the gardens. I'll be posting updates each week here on what we've been up to and Archie will be managing our Instagram account uploading short videos of our activity every few days so if you would like to see what's happening there your can join the page here . Meantime we'll kick off the season here with some observations from the early spring . Forest Garden Our Corylus avellana - Hazelnut plants have been flowering for the last 5 weeks and with the unusually warm and dry spring I expect a decent yield from the 4 year old plants. In the photo below you can see the fully open male catkin empty of pollen and the inconspicuous spider like female flower that is red when fresh but now withering. For a shed load more info on Hazels check out our previous blog ...