Baby Blue

We have alternated between organic Christmas trees and manufactured ones for some years now, but last year we opted for a tree in a pot, what Sainsbury's call a 'Baby Blue', a variety of spruce. I noticed its planting out at reference 1 and it seems to have done well, despite being in the shade of the nut tree. Can't get much in the way of direct sunlight, and won't until it is a good bit higher than it is now.

Same again this year, this time being planted at the end of the new daffodil bed, where it will catch the morning sun, my first thought having been to plant them in a line, but that would mean chopping down something else. Rather shorter at 25 inches than the 32 inches that last year's has now grown to, although BH thinks that last year's started taller than this year's.

One difference was that last year there was a small, compact root ball, while this year there was a substantial root sticking out of the side of the root ball, cut off about six inches from the main stem. Suggestive to me of a tree grown by suckering, but I have no idea whether that works with this kind of tree.

An oddity was, that when I added the left hand snap to a Powerpoint slide, Cortana did some serious messing about with it, with rectangular chunks of the image coloured in with versions of the pale blue which can still be seen above. Perhaps something to do with compensation for the bright sun behind and bright sky above. Whatever it was, it did not happen with the next snap in the set, the one included here.

PS: reinforcing bar visible bottom right from Sparrowhawks of Epsom Lane North, which I suspect of having been sold off for housing, although their website at reference 2 still talks of an Epsom presence.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/01/christmas-definitely-over.html.

Reference 2: https://www.jacksparrowhawkandson.co.uk/.