Woven With Gold Strings: New leaves

Saturday, May 18, 2013

New leaves

Having repotted Smeagol’s acer last November, we have been keen to see the first leaves appear this year. They just started to show last month and now they are out in full bloom! The tree is one year old this month... well one year old from when we got it.. I will have to ask Sarah how old it actually is.

Smeagol’s ashes have obviously been good for the tree. We decided to repot the acer rather than plant it in the ground, just in case we should move house. When we left Yorkshire in 2008 to move to Scotland, we had to leave behind a lovely acer that was a present from our friends Karen & Richard which they had given us for our wedding in 2000. It had grown really well in the ground and Sarah said it was best to leave it there rather than risk it not surviving the upheaval of being uprooted!

So for the time being, Smeagol’s acer remains in the pot, but maybe not for long....!

New leaves, 28th April 2013.

New leaves, 18th May 2013.

1 comment:

Anne MurphyMay 18, 2013 at 11:26 PM
Wow Dave and Sarah, what a beautiful blog balance you have created!-both history and future side by side! It will be lovely to visit your blog after the memories of Mum and Dad have flooded my heart and head.
'Sunlight from the Nilgiris' being the fulfilling main course, makes 'Woven with Gold Strings' the refreshing desert!
I can't believe it's been over a year since Sméagol's passing. I feel honoured to be the first to comment on the 'New Leaves' of Sméagol's acer....which looks to be really beautiful!xx
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David.

Woven with Gold Strings

When we found ourselves without our beloved Smeagol, we realised how much we missed the company of a cat. He had been with us both for fifteen years and I had got him when he was just eight weeks old. Smeagol passed away in March 2012, he would have been twenty years old that year!

We decided to plant an acer tree and bury his ashes under it. We found the tree we wanted from Abi and Tom's Garden Plants, a Kinran acer. Tom told us Kinran translated to Woven with Gold Strings.

Whilst we were deliberating about getting another cat and whether another cat could replace Smeagol, a stray cat started paying visits to our garden. He looked very young and was remarkably similar in appearance to Smeagol. He took to sleeping under Smeagol’s acer tree by the back door and when he finally decided to come into our house, he took to sleeping on his chair too!

Nearly one year later, Strider is as much a part of our home as Smeagol ever was.

I recently started a blog about how my Mum & Dad met and married in India. There are so many wonderful old black & white family photos of us all as children and of Mum & Dad when they were younger. Sunlight from the Nilgiris is about our history. As much as I enjoy writing about these old photos from our past, I’ve decided I also want to write about and show photos from more recent times, including today and tomorrow.... and it’s not just about cats!