HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hello - and Happy New Year!!

We would like to pass onto all our customers - both old and new - the very best wishes for 2010.

Well, we returned to work on Monday January 4th after our Christmas break - and the nursery was just as we had left it - white! Five days of snow just before Christmas was bad enough - but on New Year's Eve, another load appeared - and the trees and shrubs all wore a very pretty white mantle - pretty that is, unless you have to work out in it - and then it is jolly cold!! Just look at these MALUS 'RED SENTINEL' fruits covered in snow!!

The ground is frozen rock-solid down to about a foot or so - meaning it is impossible for us to lift bare-root orders - be that hedging or fruit trees.

Work outside is pretty difficult all round - but it does allow us to get on with some of those hedge-cutting jobs that are often missed in the madness of the busy season.

And here is ROSA CANINA - DOG ROSE -fruits - what a lovely piccy.

The snow is wonderful to look at - and these few pics do illustrate how beautfiul it is.

The weather forecasters tell us that we are going to have to put up with this weather for at least another week - we have got so used to mild, wet winters in Suffolk - that this more traditional weather comes as quite a shock!!

Still, on the bright side - at least it should kill off all those nasty bugs - and it will help to initiate some fantastic flower buds on plants to gurantee an unforgettable spring of blossom!!

UNTIL NEXT TIME - STAY WARM!!

RICHARD