Box out

Just about 10 days after planting the first wave of box plantlets out, as noticed at reference 1, the second and last wave (of 10) went in today, behind the unclipped box bushes that I must have planted more than twenty years ago and which are now seven or eight feet tall. Filling in the gap between those bushes and the boundary fence, recently vacated. Vacated by something which puts out long straggly shoots from root stools and spreads underground. I think it was a garden plant, but apart from spreading it was not doing terribly well in the shade. Also rather a dry spot, with the water being sucked out of the ground by the various established trees round about. We will see if the box does any better - it does alright on the dry chalk of Box Hill - but there it does get the sun.

Joined towards the end of the proceedings by a tame robin, possibly the same one as joined in last time, given that they are territorial.

Note the pile of stones blocking what I took to be a fox hole in the fence, one of them being a slab of flint possibly taken from the beach at Birling Gap, before I noticed the notices which forbade the practise.

PS: I clearly had trouble with the title of the post of reference 1, omitting it altogether in the first instance and getting it wrong in the second.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/just-about-five-months-after-potting.html.