Record-breaking temperatures and sandy soils have felled a silver birch, but there are daisies galore
I think we have lost a tree: a first for me. I have been anxiously waiting for signs of life. There were some buds in early May, but we were worried. It was some way behind the others in the small batch of silver birch we bought 10 years ago to mark a birthday. I scratched its trunk and it was green beneath the bark so we soaked it with a sprinkler for a few hours a few times. The forecast was for regular rain.
By the middle of June the buds still hadn’t opened so we ran a trickle hose overnight, every three or four days. There was still no sign of leaf while its sisters shimmered. This tree is a little more exposed than the others. Our soil has a lot of sand. We are close to the coast. The sea is just a short walk away.
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