Hedging

Our hedging plants (for alongside the septic tank, along with the willow that was delivered last week) has arrived. It's a combination of several species, chosen to give a quick-growing low (3-4ft) hedge, but productive. There's two hazels (a purple filbert, and a Pearson's Prolific), and a few each of cornelian cherry and myrobalan plum.

Cornelian cherries (Cornus mas)are only edible ripe, but they can then be eaten raw (a sour cherry/cranberry), dried, or cooked into jam. Myrobalan plums (Prunus cerasifera) have similar uses. They both ripen in late summer, or into September. Hazels need no introduction!

We'll heel all of them in, possibly in an out-of-use vegetable bed, until we can cut and dig the bed they'll go in—that might, in reality, not be until February, although the weather's so mild that it could be next week!