This morning it was decided that we would pop over to Rowberry's Nursery for a look around before heading over to Morrison's in Bromsgrove to collect a duvet from the dry cleaner.
There is an interesting annoying back story to the dry cleaning of the duvet involving the changing of bed linen, roast lamb for Sunday dinner, a bone, a dog and the integration of the latter two elements. I'll leave it to the casual reader to construct a narrative that pulls all of these together.
Anyway, we headed over to the Nursery and had a pleasant time wandering amongst the plants. Our attention was drawn to the fabulous Tree Ferns in the greenhouses and we got a little envious. We do have a little tree fern. 30% purchased it a couple of months ago from B&Q. It's not very big, standing about 40cm high with a spread of about the same amount. The smallest examples in Rowberrys were about 1m high and close to 1.5m across. We peered at the price, expecting it to be eye watering, and found it to be only £20 more than the specimen from B&Q.
In an instant the decision was made that our little tree fern was obviously lonely and would grow far better in the company of one of these magnificent examples. As I type this, it is sitting in a bath of water under our variegated Maple giving its roots a damned good soak.
In the afternoon we finally go the chicks sorted. The oldest birds* were moved in to their permanent home in the orchard and the youngest birds were relocated to larger brooder in the store room. It will only be a few more weeks before the older of the Crested Cream Legbars can be introduced to the Marans and Norfolk Greys.
As for the remaining chicks, 30% has advertised them for sale. Anyone want to buy a chicken or two?
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* Three Cuckoo Marans and five Norfolk Grey pullets
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