Veggie's random garden

Nice to finally meet Arthur   . Did you used to use him as a gate/fence post? 

Look forward to seeing the ex plum tree bed makeover photos     . I’ve found your lavender     .

You've spotted the wire marks on the trunk! Arthur was on the original boundary line between the field and the old orchard (which was sold to 5 neighbouring houses - me being the middle house with the biggest portion ). There was an old metal gate near Arthur and the far side of the gate was very boggy because the spring in the field runs into that bit.
When we neighbours bought the orchard I negotiated with the surveyor so that the field boundary became part of the orchard, rather than the field beyond. Can't remember the details but something about in Ye Olde Times the farmer dug a ditch and threw the spoil into a mound along a boundary.............anyway, having made the vendor's surveyor, countless cups of coffee, he agreed that a bit of boggy ground and a ditch were of no value to the purchaser of the field who wanted it for horse grazing, so he included it with the orchard, not the field.
That's how Arthur and his twin sisters further along the bank became my friends.