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Tales from Titchmarsh
It’s not the number of new trees we plant in this country that matters – it’s how many are still there 10 years later, says Alan
PHOTO: JASON INGRAM. ILLUSTRATION: CHRIS MADDEN ILLUSTRATION
“It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it,” goes the song.
Nothing could be more applicable than this sentiment when it comes to the planting of trees.
Here we are then – April on the doorstep – and a whole new spring ahead of us. The sap is rising in our bodies as well as in the plants in our gardens. We and they are imbued with a new vernal energy as befits the season. The important thing is that we direct it where it can make a difference and not waste our energy – and money – by squandering it due to misplaced enthusiasm.