Little Cherry Tree Question

We have a single cherry tree in the front garden, no idea of variety, it was a B&Q special a year or two back. We did get some cherries off it last year, but most of them were pinched by birds, so I'm looking at covering it with some netting this year!

No idea if two would fruit better than just one, it sounds like a good idea tho, but I'm sure someone more experienced will be along with some info soon!

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Have replied.

I lurve cherries, can you grow 'em without netting the tree?

We did last year, and lost over half of them to the birds, so yes, but not a good idea around here, perhaps you'd be more fortunate down in weird wiltshire? (BTW, both of us love wiltshire, have visited for weekends with friends a couple of times and both felt truly at home in the countryside round there!)

I just keep thinking of the cherry trees in the Tarn late June, a couple of years ago when we went on our hols - vast quantities, very tasty.

Have you been 'solsticing' at Avebury Mrs D (its where the OH works)? I'm from Derbyshire originally but Wiltshire is also a really good place to live.

Hi SBP

Unfortunately we havent managed to take in any of the festivals or solstices down that away, tho we both want to at some point, but we have spent time down there with a bunch of likeminded folks, and had some great times too! Avebury is fab, tho prefer West Kennet Long Barrow, much more atmosphere and less tourists, too many folks seem to rob a site of its presence, Stonehenge felt completely washed out when we went, all the people paying money to walk round a path, I just wanted to get amongst the stones and sit down and meditate for a while.

Belas Knapp is another place that is amazing, a little less easy to get to and a lot quieter, but what an amazing place! Mind you, I broke my leg on a trip to Belas Knapp, we were out walking with friends and it got a bit late, going a bit too dark (but with a gorgeous full moon) and I turned to help someone who wasnt happy with the slope, slipped and fell over, breaking my leg in the process! Everyone heard it snap, from up to 30' away, and I had to 'walk' for 1/2 a mile with the aid of my walking stick and Mr D down a slippery muddy slope through a wood and over a styal before we could get back to the cars, then an hour drive back to the cottage our friends were staying in to pick up our car, then another hour to the hospital! Got there at midnoght and left at 3am, home for 6am! I had just been promoted to Deputy Manager the week before and was supposed to be working at 11am, wasnt fun telling my boss I wasnt going to be in for a month or three!

Derbyshire is fab too, I grew up on the edge of the peak district and love the whole area, especially Mam Tor and Arbor Low Stone Circle! I also love North Wales and Scotland, I guess in my soul I'm one for the wilder type of countryside, I like things raw and hilly, cant be doing with too much manicured and neat things, probably why our plot is a tad higgledy piggledy! Lol!

The OH does a really good talk/tour round Stonehenge Downs, we walked round with a friend and as we walked up Stonehenge Avenue (where they would have processed/maybe the route of the stones?) we saw a hare sitting watching on the pathway.......magic.

If you're down this way and fancy a tour?

ps Derbyshire is indeed FAB! but a bit too cold, as we get older we gravitate farther south.

Would love it SBP!

Have to see what we can arrange sometime! Best experiences we have had have been seeing a cow give birth as we walked past it in the field next to Arbor Low (had the place to ourselves for an hour on a glorious spring morning a few years back, seeing the reaction of our elderley dog when we visited Bryn Celli Dhu, seeing the full moon when visiting Belas Knapp, feeling the silence at Glencoe in Scotland and watching the sunset at Mochras in Wales. All of them are special memories that have a touch of something more than the mundane, something spiritual that just cant be defined in words, but just has to be felt!