What a strange summer!

We’ve had rain, sun, rain, rain and sun (not in that order but it’s been an odd one)

Anyway, not a lot goes on in the summer because everything is growing and stuff, but if you’ve taken a walk down the line recently you may have noticed some super wildflowers - cornflower, corn poppy, corn cockle and wild marigold have been popping up all summer long. I’m not putting pictures up you’ll have to come have a look for yourself!

I have to say on my patrols up and down I was expecting a few more than there has been, but considering the summer we’ve had I reckon they’ve done well.

Some of the new trees have suffered though - ironically those that where planted with the digger have come off worse, but they were bigger than the others, so much more chance of damage I suppose. But out of 30 or so trees planted we have about 15 living and hopefully they’ll really go from strength to strength over the next few years.

In the Autumn I have about 15 or so small trees to plant cedar and stuff which I’ll do once I have done a complete brush cutting mission up and down. I hope that we get a few more wild flower seed over the next few months as I would like to develop the area around the trees into more of a wild flower area instead of grasses.

Come back soon to read about some potentially great news about The Standish Line.

And while I remember WN6 Creative who kindly provide this site for free have also added the following address to the site - www.standishline.co.uk so if you forget the usual address then simple type the new one and of course type ’standish line’ into Google and we are at the top of the first page.

Catch ya soon

D