Garden Changes

Regular readers may have spotted that something is different in the header photo of the garden in front of the house…

When we came here in 2006, the front garden had both a small pear tree and the imposing cherry tree.

We had a couple of years when the pear tree fruited, but then it stopped. The cherry tree gave fruit each year, but it was always a battle between us and the starlings as to who would get the cherries first.

We had to cut down the pear tree in around 2022 because it had died, and then in 2023 the fungus on the cherry tree started to get the upper hand…

In March this year we decided the time had come to say goodbye to the cherry tree.

At least we have wood for the woodburner stove for the next few years.

We will shortly be paying a visit to a local tree nursery to pick out a couple of replacement trees. We won’t see them come to maturity, but hopefully the next owners of the “Witte Wand” will…