The field and trees planted

I can also hear the skylarks :o) come the summer.
are you finding you are getting more wildflowers emerging as time goes on? I'd love some wide open spaces like this to create a wildflower meadow.

Well Honey,you are on the way to a wood. Every little helps. Had you thought of collecting seed or seedlings in the wild and sowing those? Cherry stones germinate quite easily and though the fruit won't be up to much the flowers will be lovely. Holly grows quite easily from berries too. Both these should make nice young trees in 10years.
Very best of luck with it.

That s great you are planting fruit trees shame you dont eat the fruit but great the birds like the apples. I use to grow fruit trees but when I was told your not allowed to cut any trees down that including fruit trees I stopped as I only have a small garden. A few Ginko trees would look great giving you a wonderful colour of come autumn and they grow huge.

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We have a lot of rank grass on the field Seaburn & Stera, so to create a good meadow it really needs to be ploughed, left fallow, ploughed again and then seeded. My life is really not long enough to go through all that, I did plant some wild flowers amongst the grass last year and left it uncut. We ended up with rabbit runs through the grass, eaten plants and huge tussocks of grass. We have several wild cherries, damsons, or plums - never sure which they are, very pretty in flower and self seeds. I have grown Oak from acorns and they are on the field, Holly I have bought in various varieties, all have been eaten by the rabbits, even though I put tree guards on them! I shall persevere!

Not all the fruit goes to waste 3d. The man who brings the wood chippings takes lots home as he has a family who eat fruit. My Son is a chef and takes some to the restaurant, some apples, but he mostly strips the plum trees when they are ready! I love plums, but my body doesn't, if you get my drift!
The Ginko looks wonderful, I didn't realise that it had such glorious autumn colour. I shall certainly look out for one of those. Perhaps wait until later in the year (hopefully) when we can get out again and find a more mature one than you can buy on the internet. Something to look forward to.

That's great your son and the man who brings the wood chippings has your fruit your son for being a chef and the man for his family. Yes I know what you mean certain foods I can no longer eat either.

I am so pleased you like the Ginko tree yes they make a gorgeous display of colour not only does it have the wonderful colour it is also one of the best trees to clean up polution.
If you type into Google Japan main streets of Ginko trees then click on images you should get some gorgeous photos of them they even have like an arched avenue on some .

How exciting!
18 years ago ours was a field, we planted tiny tree whips, they came as bunches of 25, mixed native mainly, planted in a chess board pattern, the first two years the grass was higher than the trees. We used to mow in between them, it only took about ten years for it to start to resemble a woodland.

Yes, 3d. I don't like to see the fruit go to waste, but no-one seems to want it round here. Loads of people put out apples free on the roadside and they are not taken. A few years back I tried to sell carrier bags full of Greengages at 50p and sold one! People prefer to buy from the supermarket the sprayed, pampered and perfect ones, rather than one out of shape. Perhaps the new 'wonky' fruit and veg will change peoples minds. The Ginko's are beautiful and have certainly gone on a list of 'I wants'.

Full of hope then Dawnsaunt? The chap across the road, he has an extra 1/2 acre to us, bought tiny whips from the Woodland Trust and I have introduced him to various Nurseries round here which sell slightly bigger native trees. He has now planted close to 200 of these whips and young trees and last time I saw him (before the lock-down) he was looking forward to seeing them come into leaf so that they looked something more than a dead twig! (His description, not mine).
I hope I shall still be about in 18 years time, a grumpy, doddery old lady if so!

I wish someone would put out bags of greengages here - I would be first in the queue. (People probably thought they were unripe plums...)

I like your field. A few cows grazing in it would look nice.
You have chosen some interesting trees to surround it. The wildlife must appreciate that :)

Hywel has come up with a good notion there, cows or sheep! It would be a nice addition?
I think you’ve got some lovely trees planted too, Honeysuckle. It must be a dream to have a lovely meadow, a dream for the insects and wildlife too, as Hywel said.

A gentle, peaceful blog.
You have chosen many beautiful trees and must see daily changes at the moment. The bird song has been especially precious this year and more noticeable.

I put a big enough label across the barrow they were on Stera, but no takers!

We like the field too Hywel, though it is a wasted space really, the geese sit on it and the two chicken and one cockerel, all that's left from Fox depredation, wander about and mostly scrap up plants that I put in. Rabbits of course have a go at most plants, but seem to leaving the leucanthemum and the Day Lilies alone. OH would really like a large pond/lake but thinks he should spend the money on under-pinning the house which moves on Fen land! Sounds boring to me.

I keep trying to make it wildlife friendly Kate, lots of native trees and shrubs, native flowers too. Yesterday we planted another Rowan down there, one that was bought several weeks ago before this all started, and horribly pot bound. Poor thing had to have the pot cut off to get it out. Hopefully I will be able to hear it sighing and it will romp into growth now. Also took a barrow load of wild plants down to put in, but then got diverted into helping OH remove some of the Elder seedlings, can't keep them all, under the Hawthorn trees, courtesy of the pigeons! Plants are nothing exciting, just wild stuff that moths like for caterpillars and 10 Red Campion (Silene dioica) bought last year for 50p each at the end of the season. Lots of various colour Violets can go up there too under shrubs and trees - they just grow like weeds here and I hate to pull them up and throw them out.

You are right Wildrose, the trees all coming into leaf or flower, the Hawthorn will soon be out in flower - should have been cut in the Autumn or Spring but will now have to wait yet again. The birds are very vocal first thing and with the extra quiet, less traffic, not that we ever get a huge amount, lets you hear them during the day. No hurry to do things so I can sit and weed quietly and see things I normally wouldn't - two different caterpillars from a metre square weedy patch in the path (guilty feelings again, but I did move them somewhere safe) Voles in the garden and watched the Magpies this morning tugging at the branches of the Judas tree. I know that these (Cercis siliquastrum) have brittle twigs that fall off, but do the Magpies really know that this is a tree with twigs that break off for their nests?

Magpies are very clever:-) What an amazing place to live! You are certainly doing your bit for the environment and I'm not at all jealous ....well maybe a little bit. I guess you have no problem with self isolation:-)

We were even more isolated when we moved here, we liked the idea of being away from towns, street lights and neighbours. The ones we do have are very nice, but separated either by the road (opposite side) or a field or two. Now of course they have opened it up for planning and people are selling off bits of their gardens to put a house on. We still sit way back from the road, about 100 ft so even the few people that do their walk past are well away and I go and talk to my 80+ neighbour through his gate and wave to the rest! Always something to do, the weeds grow quickly, more trees to plant as soon as the restrictions are lifted and I can get out to buy some.

Bet the night skies are marvellous. My daughter and I were staying overnight in a cottage in East Sussex some years ago. It was dark as we stepped from the taxi and we both stood speechless in awe. Because of the light pollution, we had never seen a dark sky. One of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen:-)

It's certainly dark once you get past the 'courtesy lights' which the builder put in on the new extension. Irritating as though you can turn them on so they stay on permanently, you can't turn them off! Sometimes I just want to sneak out and see what's about without getting bathed in glaring light. Up on the field it's dark and the sky just wraps around you like a blanket dotted with stars, the land is flat with nothing tall to block the view. I forget that people in towns don't see it or hear the quiet of night-time.