Digging

Fritillaria meleagris in bloom in Diana's garden yesterday.

A beautiful sunny morning boosted my enthusiasm for college today, only being marred by the dreaded alpine plant ident , they have such convoluted names! I think I managed to wring every wretched one from my brain despite having a three week interval since learning them properly, some knowledge seems to be sinking in thank goodness! We already knew about and were secretly dreading the practical session on double digging which followed, but I have to say it turned out to be quite a good laugh. We all got stuck in after a very informative and energetic demonstration from Elizabeth and for once you could tell that our class had achieved something at Harlow Carr, as we left the teaching garden looking much better than when we started. So in honour of that we took a class photo for posterity!

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves"
Gandhi