I've been watching this acer going vividly red over the last two weeks and was recently reminded that this was the tree that was planted and blest in honour of our local Saint, the martyr priest Saint Ralph Sherwin. His feast day, alongside some of his companions is celebrated on the first day of December, especially by our sister parish in Alvaston, which is dedicated to the English martyrs.
It needs saying more often that we have a splendid team of gardeners looking after the parish gardens, and it needs trumpeting that they've still been at it in these last few months, when we've been so tormented by the measures taken by the government to attempt to control the spread of the new c-virus.
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