January and another wet month but fortunately a couple of dry Saturday mornings one in fact extremely pleasant with winter sun filtering through the framework of tree branches and illuminating the hillside beyond, a time to stop and just take it in after so many gloomy dark days and it makes you want to get on with something. After last year's success growing Yellow Rattle another area was cleared including tidying around the adjacent gravestones then sown, since then we have had a very cold snap down to minus ten which is exactly what Yellow Rattle needs to trigger it into germination so here's hoping. We were also gifted the branches from the Old Glossop Christmas tree so they have been trimmed to size and used to top up the dead hedge at the top of the path. Whilst working on the hedge it was good to note that the Honeysuckle is firmly established and starting to spread over the top of the hedge. Honeysuckle is a great source of food for night time pollinators, moths to you and me.
