Alasdair

As those of us in the Uk know, it has been getting rather windy over the past few days.

I have an Acer platanoides (norway maple) of the shohin size. It isn't really anything specil, just a 10 year old 6 inch stick in pot. I love this little guy. I came home from work yesterday to find that he had decided to move. not just a few inches across the bench, but physically out of the pot and travel a good few metres down the garden! It seems the leaves had acted as sails, caught the wind and let my tree fly! My mame literati ash wasn't far behind.

So i spent half an hour yesterday with a big bundle of raffia tieing each of my tree's to their pots and their pots to the beench.

I've learned the lesson of securing your trees when repotting.

Al

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I can feel another "I wish that was my tree" moment coming on...
Currently studying BSc Plant Biology at the Universty of Wales, Aberystwyth

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