Future planting events
The last week of November is National Tree Week, being the start of the tree planting season. As many of you are aware this is important to me as I have a project to plant 1000 trees to mark the year of the Normans in 2027.
I can announce that we have many trees available to us, and have received funding that will help us get to our goal, but we will need help from volunteers to do the actual planting.
Working alongside Battle for Trees, we have the following:
- 400 trees to be planted in the National Trust lower lake field
- Small nut orchard planting
- 70 trees on the land of Claverham Community College
- Planting site on an area on Netherfield Hill
- Working with the Blackfriars building site to develop a nature walk including trees
- Small number of trees on BTC Telham recreation ground
I’m busy working on dates, and these things are always reliant on the weather and the delivery of trees, however there will be weekday and weekend dates in November onwards. There are likely to be plantings on the 16th, 23rd, and 30th November and we will need people to bring spades and tools that will help. Please let me know if you want to help – my contact details are on this website.
Battletreewarden@gmail.com
Orchard Planting
During the first year of the Tree Wardens activity (2024) we applied for funding to plant two Orchards; one at the North Trade Road recreation ground, in the shape of a clock and/or compass, surrounded by a natural English hedge providing a boundary around the orchard with four (compass) points to enter.
The second orchard is at Coronation Gardens recreation ground, a more traditional fruit orchard planted in rows.
Microwood at Coronation Gardens
Also during this year we were key in planning and planting a microwood (sometimes known as a Miyawaki forest) at the Coronation Gardens recreation ground alongside Rother District Council.
