Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

Seeking your advice, we want to plant a memorial tree for our boss who died earlier this year.

The proposed site is south-ish facing, about 6m from the office building but close to a pathway so needs to be columnar in habit.

Scotland, so plenty of rain but the site itself doesn't water-log.

'Care' will be from a contracted ground maintenance company

Any ideas?

Davesnave

Dawyck Beech, either gold or purple?

Davesnave

Or.....Liquidambar styraciflua 'Slender Silhouette'.

New to UK. Likes moisture and acid soil. Very narrow:

https://www.ornamental-trees.co.uk/liquidambar-styraciflua-slender-silhouette-tree-pp674

Davesnave

Not much to report here. Conservatory company haven't replied to our request for a breakdown of additional costs and the two fire/fireplace people haven't sent any estimates through.

On the plus side, we had our new TV wiring made live yesterday, so there's TV in the bedrooms and kitchen/diner, not just the living room, and the awful remains of the 'cowshed' stuck onto the end of the house can now be demolished. There were just two poles and a connecting bit of wood left, with the old satellite dish attached!

This also means we can drive a digger in there and lay the final length of drain, but with winter approaching, we're not up for that. If the conservatory is delayed, as I suspect it might be, we'll just shut up shop for the winter, rather than carve the garden up with any more digging. We don't need soak-aways immediately, not with the amount of rubble I've buried! :rotfl:

alfie_1

hi folks


what do you make of this.... 2 fields along from me, I thought they were muck spreading !!

greenbee

What on earth is it? Have you investigated further?

ukmaggie45

alfie_1 wrote: »

hi folks


what do you make of this.... 2 fields along from me, I thought they were muck spreading !!

Looks more like fly tipping to me.

greenbee

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Looks more like fly tipping to me.

Yep. Although why would they spread it out rather than leave it in a heap? Or do it in daylight?

Did you get the number plate Alfie?

Davesnave

Well, there is muck there and also plastic, so it looks as if they have spread plastic bags full of muck, with the spreader cutting them up.

There's nothing except the white and black plastic, so it's not fly tipping.

Perhaps the bag material is biodegradeable,or it had begun to biodegrade, making the bags unsaleable? Let's hope so.

Whatever, it's going to blow about a bit, come winter.

Davesnave

Speaking of farm machinery, some old dear ran into a hedge flail on the back of a tractor yesterday, although whose fault it was is impossible to tell, as those things waggle about in the resting position and the tractor drivers often try to wiggle the !!!!! of their vehicle to bring it into a good passing position. Could be he wiggled wrong.....

Anyway, it didn't half make a mess of the Peugeot's front end! :eek: