Next Time Stick to Ferns

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Work worked. And that's all to be said about that til it's done.

I won't be returning to it today, because I slept very badly. Two cups of tea and a can of coke and I'm still not awake. Today is for physical work, so the trees are going in.

We lost our minds over trees. There's this post in the front garden where the For Sale sign was, they took the sign away and left the post there...

So my plan was to dig it up and replace it with a tree. We bought four young ones, an apple, a crabapple, a plum and a magnolia. The crabapple was going to go in the front garden, but it looks too delicate for the north wind. Also, we don't have a fence. People are generally nice around here, but it would be an easy snap for a vandal. No, I can't help myself, the crabapple's going in the back along with the others.

I have to get rid of that stupid post one day.

Four trees, I said, forgetting the fifth, an indoor Malabar Chestnut. The local B&Q sold it as low maintenance. Hah!

They dared to say it can handle partial shade, well, we live and learn. It adores sunlight, heck yeah, 8 hours straight if it can get them, entirely the wrong tree for Scotland, never mind this house! It's a tropical wetland plant with a susceptibility to root rot. How does that work? Mist it and it becomes a target for mildew. Let it dry out and it's prey to red spider mite. I have seen at least 6 gardening info sites/channels that contradict each other on how to look after this thing, and all I have really learned is never to buy a plant from B&Q again.