Now being new to this blog thing I’m not sure where to start so I’ll just keep wittering away until something sensible comes to me.

Until then (it may be a while I’m the wrong side of forty and not convinced I’ve said anything sensible yet!) brace yourselves for much meandering, digressing strange tangents away from the initial subject matter, with a healthy slice of sarcasm.

 

November has been a busy month in the life of Hallmark Plants, 2 Lorries arrived from Palandri and fortunately they were loaded with plants, all of which have since been forwarded to the lucky customers that have purchased them.

Particularly impressive were the Half Standard Photinia Red Robin, lovely straight stems and very strong heads. The Holly (Ilex aquifolium) Half Standards had a very impressive show of berry and the variegated forms were strong with impressive colour.

 

Less impressive was the assistance in the unloading of one of the lorries, I firmly believe that HE was trying to speed up the unloading, however by the time we had stopped the forklift 3 times because he was in the way we were most definatly in time deficit!

 I even stayed quite calm whilst he attempted to stand upright a four and a half metre plant in a 3 metre trailer but I did get a little bit narked as he thwacked me about the head with some of the Hollies that we were unloading.

Narked and thwacked, sounds like I wrote the scripts for the batman movies back in the 70’s.

(I refer to the offending person as ‘he’ in order that the driver of the vehicle cannot recognise himself!)

 

We have started lifting our field grown laurel hedging, always good feedback from the customers as to the quality and size but nothing like the feedback I get from my muscles a day or two after the first rootballing session. My body aches like a pair of sumo wrestlers have been playing tug of war with it like they would fight over the last cream bun.

 

We have finalised our next trip to Italy (to the mother ship known as Palandri) I will report back on the quality of food and wine whoops sorry I mean on the quality of the stock and the must have items for January and February.

 

Here is a surreal question, why is it so easy to inspire people to have a dead tree in their living room for the best part of December but less straight forward to convince people to have a real living, breathing growing tree for their garden!! Bah Humbug!  

 

And on that note I will bring this blog to an end.

 

I will take this opportunity to wish you all a fabulous Xmas and a prosperous New Year. 

See you in January!