New trees for Jubilee Wood for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

 

In the past few days, Aly and Kim met to plant some new trees in the Jubilee Wood, as part of the Sports Centre's plan to improve nature on the War Memorial Recreation Field site.

Small trees in rabbit spirals

The trees were donated by The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) as part of their #IDigTrees campaign, funded by Ovo Energy customers.

 

They include Oak, Silver Birch, Rowan, Beech, Hornbeam, Spindle and Goat Willow. 

Altogether, we have now planted 32 trees, as we also have a "Landmark Tree" given to our Parish by Saving Devon's Treescapes (Devon Wildlife Trust).

 

This has been planted as part of our Queen's Platinum Jubilee "Green Canopy".

Kim during the planting

After the planting we took a photo of Mike Wilson, who is Chair of the Winkleigh War Memorial Recreation Field Trustees with the Small-leaved Lime Tree.

 

Spring flowers are showing in the wood, and the ferns are just starting to unfurl their leaves.  There are primroses, greater stitchwort and celandine in flower.  There will also be bluebells in the next month.

 

Primroses

Greater Stitchwort

Lovely mature oak tree

More native trees whips added to the spiral hedgerow

#IDigTrees - Over 1 million trees. And growing...December 2020

Despite the restrictions on meeting up during the Covid-19 pandemic, we successfully managed to plant all 100 young trees donated to us by The Conservation Volunteers (IDigTrees Project) which is funded by Ovo Energy. 

 

 

Kim - "Chief Organiser"

 

Included in the packs were: Oak, Alder, Beech, Silver Birch and Hornbeam (10 of each) and Rowan, Bird Cherry, Hazel, Crab Apple and Grey Willow (10 of each). We have not planted Alder or Green Beech on the site before, so this adds to our biodiversity.

Dave

Matt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charlie

 

Six volunteers met up on four separate occasions in December, with two or three people working together on one occasion, to keep within the Government guidelines on meeting outdoors and keeping a safe distance.

Vicki

Kim - again

Dave

Kim admiring the 2012 Cherry Tree

More trees to fill the gaps

An enthusiastic group of volunteers gathered on Sunday afternoon, 12th January.  After endless rain, at last the weather was dry and we planted approximately 100 trees in two hours.

This time we had an energetic band of 5 teenagers and 10 adults - a great turn-out at short notice.

The native trees included willow, blackthorn, hawthorn, oak, red dogwood.  We also planted some primroses and raspberry canes.

To avoid more plastic, we re-used our rabbit spirals and canes from some trees which no longer needed them.

We also took the opportunity to do some formative pruning on some of the older trees, such as the Cherry and the Oak, guided by Tom.

The trees were funded by Ovo Energy as part of #IDigTrees and distributed by The Conservation Volunteers.