Well it looks like we will be seeing out first nuts this year.

We have planted over the past three years.

• Hazelnuts (12)
• Walnuts (1 soon to be 2)
• Almonds (2)
• Chestnuts (2 soon to be 2)

The below is a photo of a young almond from out front.

Also in further signs of spring, one of our new elderberry  bushes is beginning to flower. Over winter we planted 5 elderflower bushes (Sambucus nigra). This is for future production of wine (both still and sparkling), beer and jams. We will see how these first 5 plants go and next winter look at getting a few more.

This also goes into something I have been thinking about and that is living fences. My thoughts being in when the fence out front actually falls apart it won’t be replaced, we will have this hedge instead.

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