Rory Harding
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257 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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Um it's it's more of like an open mosaic um where there are high light levels of penetration down to down to quite low.
So uh like the prime photosynthetic band is waist high to the the top of a small ladder.
So it's quite open and with the um well it it looks dense from above, but when you're in there it it it's um yeah, there's a there's a openness to it and yeah, part of that is about access too.
Like we were finding that when we'd stacked out the the orchard with a a lot of woody shrubs, like quite close underneath trees, it was hard to move around, hard to get nets on the berries or yeah position a ladder.
So
Uh our biggest freestanding trees would be stone fruit, uh European plums, Asian American hybrid plums, and uh apricots.
And then yeah, small um that and that could also be larger fruit trees, uh uh larger um apples and pears on bigger root stocks.
Um we're a bit we're on smaller root stocks, so they're probably the the sort of sub sub tree layer.
Uh vines are things like kiwis, grapes, passion fruit, um scarlet runner beans which uh sit on the on the walls for the most part, so rather than twining up um trees.
Yeah.
Um Well, a lot at the moment.
Yeah.
In the in the past few years we've compl almost totally revamped that and we've gone um for a diverse mix of um native and exotic bunching grasses and uh perennial flowers.
Yeah, well I think the first purpose is just beauty and um visual structure and interest for us.
Um
Like we we have to live there year round.
So we've we've planted a mix to be to have a s uh successions of flowering throughout the season.
Yeah.
And a whole bunch of plants that also look good, um as decaying plants through the late autumn and winter.
Yeah.
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