I got home early tonight – I didn’t have any marking to do this evening because the day for our small people has been taken up with a morning in forest school – managed by someone else and an afternoon doing PE. Yee ha. So after they all went home, all I had to do was film a bit of film that’s meant to be CCTV footage – more on that later – then set up for tomorrow and come home.

When I arrived, the garden was bathed in the special golden light of the moor. I’m not sure why it is that when the weather is nice here, the light is amazing, but it is.

The coral bark maple has appeared here many times before and every time it does, I think “I can’t get any more mileage out of this plant, surely?” Yet here it is again, the star of my pic, coral bark, pink tinged leaf margins and lush golden-ness. It is such a completely stunning tree that I feel I’d be doing it an injustice to proclaim it as anything less than the king of trees for a garden. I urge you, go and buy one and shove it into your earth – you won’t regret it.