Seven years and counting

The window box has now been doing its stuff for 7 years and 17 days.

Because the plastic is rapidly deteriorating, my friend Ralph Dellow made a wooden box for the whole thing to go in.  We decided not to put any wood preservative on this because of the effect it might have on the flora and fauna.

As would be expected at this time of year,Wbx is going into its winter mode with the leaves on the sallows to the left turning yellow and falling.

In summer one, just one, of these sallow wands died quite suddenly with the leaves turning brown rapidly.  But now it has made a recovery of sorts with tufts of new leaves at the nodes all the way up the stem.

I wonder if some sort of boring insect got inside the wand.  I will investigate when I do the coppicing for this year.