Tunbridge garden mid winter - just a few days before winter solstice. The Tamarisk, so dense in summer - is now brown and see through. The Pin Oak in the foreground, planted this summer, still has its autumn leaves, while several plants have touches of frost burn. The pencil pines are so full of roosting starlings each night - is that why the branches keep bending out ? Not much to do - it feels like everything is asleep.