Planting and chatting

A better day than yesterday! Decided not to go down to the town today - just as well, maybe, as it was apparently mobbed! I thought it a good opportunity to plant a few shrubs on the bank and opted for my three Schefflera rhododendrifolia, a shrub or tree in the family Araliaceae from Nepal and other parts of the region. I can't imagine why it's so named - it used to be called S. impressa. Perfectly hardy here - we grew a very tall plant of it at Arduaine. These are seedlings from that plant, which was in its turn a rooted cutting from Peter Cox's plant at Baravalla in Argyll.

Very difficult planting site - trying not to slide down the bank and dig into rocky ground at the same time. Managed to plant the three of them and spend an hour talking to passing friends too!

Quote of the Day:

Tom Hodgkinson – “I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening.”