Seasonality

The joys of working outdoor in Ireland is something I always find myself more often than not loving and enjoying. Maybe it is in the Winter when this becomes most apparent. The cold of the frost, the damp air on those misty days, those beautiful fresh nearly warm days and the different degrees of rain. The colours in nature and the wonderful evening light when the sun shows up. It is all important to me at least and makes me look forward to most of it. Id be lying if the endless heavy rain is enjoyable but this does allow me some time to write a blog or post new Instagram stuff!! (Check us out, coming along nicely!!!)

​Why this matters so much to me is it makes my job interesting and seasonal. I prune alot of fruit trees and bushes, rake alot of leaves, spread lots of compost, plant hedges and trees and take stock of the past year and look forward to the new. Without this my job becomes disconnected from nature and how it has been done for generations. 

What has brought this home to me is seeing other (mostly larger) landscapers doing the kind of work in December that should be done and May and visa versa. This is driven by deadlines and larger budgets sometimes. It is however not the most sustainable way of working and also more often than not leads to poor results. Planting big trees from all over Europe in the middle of summer, rolling out lawns on muddy soil in January and butchering plants when ever the chance arises. These will not be practices I will be following and in the strive for progress I will be going back to how things used to be done. 

I want to enjoy the seasons and the work that goes with them and look forward to each as if it was a new day. Seasonality is the part of living, where we do, I most enjoy so why not try looking at the positives of what we can do and look forward to the next season and what that will bring. 

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