Post edited 5:58 pm – 27th April 10 by annmarie

I always look forward to receiving the RHS mag. I received next month's issue last Friday. I fick through it with eager anticipation. What wonders will it have in it this month, I ask myself. Gorgeous photos and brilliant articles.

I didn't know for example that there are so meany types of parsley. I'm going to grow some this year it looks so easy. And 6 pages on orchids for the garden. Brilliant photos and how to grow them. One I would like to try is “Habenaria radiata”. It has beautiful white flowers. And I've alway liked the eucalyptus because the bark is so unusal. I see there's an interesting one from New Zealand. When the weather is dry the bark is silver but when it rains the true colours come out and it's most spectacular. I would love to have one of them in my garden.

We had a eucalyptus in our last garden, but the previous owner had cut it down and when we moved in it had 3 stems coming from the old trunk. We had some very high winds and down came the tree and the garden wall. The tree stretched right across the road and the tip was on the pavement the other side.

Ciderman said:

Oh dear!

In the back of our minds we have this very small worry about the Redwood and Gum tree that frame our entrance. They are both healthy but it's hard to know for sure. Fortunately most of our prevailing winds and storms would make them fall away from the house and into the road. (It might well demolish our letter box!) Photo taken in winter so redwood has little foliage. Which is a good thing as we have a heating recovery system in the roof and as soon as the light strikes it , it begins to warm up inside.

Your photo makes my tree look like little a twig. I suppose at least the Redwood is less likely to come down being deciduous. Your trees do look lovely. It would be a shame if you lost them. I hate to see trees being cut down.

Oh, a heat recovery system. Very green.

Ciderman said:

On our last place. Now that's what I call a tree! or was!

Is it a big tree or a very little person.