Our own winter viewing, 2026
Winter Silhouettes
Once a year we open the polytunnels in the worst week of January, when there is not a leaf on anything deciduous and there is nowhere for a bad branch to hide. It is the only honest way to look at a broom.
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The Ledger Maple, lit from one side. Eleven thousand twig ends, and the light finds every one of them.
The Cranbrook Elm against the tunnel plastic — an even division all the way up.
Seventeen, showing the trunk spacing it spends eight months of the year hiding.