HAVE you any photos online of your plantation project? I too suffer from SADs. December is a wipeout. On Sep 9, 2007, at 7:58 PM, SIMON TREASURE wrote: > or the woodland being created by me at the Hall of Heddle. just > ordered my winter stock for planting, (hazel, hawthorne whitebeam, > willow ,alder, rowan and birch) a further 500 to add to the 1200 or > so already in the ground, to augment the three and a half acres of > naturalising garden landscaping i am doing. > > the big problem this year is that winter started in July, that > makes it a long haul to May 2008. i already have symptoms of SAD > which doesn't normally happen until mid December. everyone in the > uk has had a bad summer but we seem to simply have missed it > altogether this year.