
Release the hedgerow
The first of our crab apples are standing tall this springtime on the path from River View holiday cottage towards Pateley Bridge. We released the saplings from their plastic wrappers now they have reached their first birthday. In amongst the honeysuckle, the hawthorn and blackthorn and the wild roses, they are shooting up quickly. It was a few hours' work unwrapping the young hedgerow, but it looks a lot healthier in the fresh air. Grass growing inside the plastic was smot