FREEDOM!

To be honest, there's not much use for an old Belfast sink up here. But in Dunbar we had a sink with a tree (Scots Pine) trapped in it. We don't know how long it's been there - but it is at least ten years old - stunted, trapped and unhappy.

So I wanted to treat it to a new life - and here it is. On the long shot it's in the left hand corner - wont it look magnificent at the foot of the drive in about, erm, twenty years time or so? If it survives the sheep, the rabbits, the deer and the wind of course.

The original plan was to put it on the right hand side where the wall would give it some protection from the winds. But the soil there was less than a spade deep and right on bedrock. At least where it is there's a tad more than a spade depth of soil sitting on (what in my archaeological days we called natural) undisturbed glacial sands. (I'm no soil scientist, but it was red (iron panning?), sandy and I reckon glacial - what else could have formed it?).

Changeworks
bought me some fruit trees as a leaving present (when we're ready for them). The biggest challenge is finding somewhere where they stand half a chance of surviving. Along the line of this fencing behind the scots pine is one option. At least there's a half decent depth of soil there and the line would more or less follow the prevailing wind, so they'd protect one another.

It's not a great option though. I'd rather have a clump of trees - but where?