Spring Equinox

Today is the Spring Equinox

Imagine for a mo that you have decide to go for a swim . In this berth are two sorts of somebody : those who go heartily along the beach and dip , confess with delight into the foaming breaker . No hesitancy . The other sort inch close to the edge and put out an enquiring toe to test the water . They then disengage a bit , grumble and shiver before , eventually , immersing themselves .

This latter is exactly how the British leap behaves . One second it is full of gusto and there are green shoots all over the position , then it is all giggly and restrained as the inhuman conditions returns . Still , we take what succor we can from the undeniable fact that , bar apocalypse or climatological meltdown , it will come in the next few week .

In the meantime I have been fearfully meddlesome making plant support . I notice from otherposts on this sitethat I am not alone . My prefer method is to hazard off into the Sir Henry Wood next door to my house and cut down some hazel branches . I then drag then back home and interweave them into a sort of floating birds nest across all of my borderline . It looks slightly derange for a spot but the plants very shortly grow up through the sticks and , like all the skilful support garment , they become invisible . The stick are very robust and I do n’t have to do anything else until next winter when they all get taken down ( they are brittle and useless by then ) and change state into inflammation .

I realize that this is not for everybody – for a start you have to have entree to a wood – but is by far the most attractive way to impale tall perennials that I have ever notice . In client garden I have also stretched plastic netting on posts across molding but that , though effectual , is pretty hideous until the works mature and cover it up .

The most important matter is to put your stakes out early , before perennials jump sprouting . Once they have grow and are beginning to topple over it is too late to impale them : there is nothing bad than tie them to a duo of cane with string . So do it now .

Meantime I am holding on for Spring .

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