The Secret Garden

                                                                       The Ash Tree

Alan Place - Nature Lover

It's been eight years since a fire forced us to move from Horfield to Hartcliffe, Bristol, a move my late wife said saved me from having a mental breakdown.

At the back of the garden is a wild area where a tree has grown, until this afternoon I didn't know which variety it is, it is an Ash Rowan. I was going to cut it down, but I saw how healthy it is, so I chose to let it stand.

I hope to live another decade -into my late- 70's -this way I can notice its growth from a sapling to a young tree.

As a teen, I used to spin helicopter seeds in a woodlands in Clevedon, North Somerset, I thought they were Sycamore seeds, they are Ash seeds.