It's always a sure sign of Spring being around the corner in that our Hamamelis x intermedia Arnold Promise at both Barcham and in my garden started to flower this week. Next to show will be Cornus mas in March followed by Betula ermanii foliage emerging by April. We have now potted over 52,000 trees this season and with only another 23,000 to go we should be finished by Easter. Our reservoirs are completely full, much to the delight of our resident King Fisher.

We are still harvesting rainfall at 1000 cubic metres per 24 hours and our reservoirs will be full by the end of January at this rate. It has proved to be a very wet winter.

We came back to work to find a winter wonderland at Barcham but this didn't stop us potting over 5,000 trees up in the first week back. We have now potted 24,000 trees so far this autumn which will be ready for sale from next September onwards. We aim to pot between 60,000-70,000 by the time we finish potting in March.

We are now trying to move into the 21st century with our Barcham Trees website, and at the moment I am working on the finishing touches to get this launched in the very near future.  With this new website we are aiming to reach all individuals that are interested in trees.  Proving information and photographs of the many species that Barcham stock, as well as a few more weird and wonderfuls.