Challenges

Among the many things to look forward to seeing in late March and April are the green shoots pushing through the quite dense carpet of tough leaves under Blacka's oldest Beech trees.

Some managers exaggerate this challenge, going as far as to declaim that 'nothing' can grow under a Beech tree.

We've never lost the suspicion that this claim would be another justification for bringing in the chain saws and controlling nature by force.