We water the trees we plant throughout the growing season (roughly April to September) for the first two years after planting. We do this because it takes that long for the newly planted trees to get their roots down deep and wide enough to ensure that they can find water for themselves. It is important…
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The Watering Season is Under Way
This year’s planting season ended on 20 March and we had hoped, given the exceptionally wet winter, that we would not need to start watering the trees we had planted last year and this until some time in May, perhaps even after the next planned relaxation of the pandemic protocols on 17 May. However, there…
Woodland Planting Near Holly Walk
Braintree District Council (BDC) has been considering how to increase the number of trees in its area and in particular what scope there is to create new woodland. One area identified, with the help of the Tree Group, as a possible site for a belt of trees is the field between Holly Walk and the…
Completion of the World War 1 Memorial Park – Part 2
We reported in January that planting on the World War 1 Memorial Park between Bramble Road and Honeysuckle Way had been completed. The project was designed and funded by Braintree District Council (BDC) and in January we had finished planting the 30 trees allocated by BDC for this, the second and final year of the…
Mick’s horse chestnuts
Mick Pywell loved his little garden. So did the three horse chestnuts he nurtured from seed. So much so that they outgrew the space available. Sadly Mick recently passed away before he could find them a new home. His daughter, Michelle, not wishing to see them simply cut down contacted the Tree Group. The trees…
Completion of the World War 1 Memorial Park
Having finished the 17 tree project on the Hatfield Road Estate and having filled the interval by planting 4 replacement trees in The Avenue, we came back on 26 January to finish the World War 1 Memorial Park between Bramble Road and Honeysuckle Way. We had the last 15 trees to plant and fortunately were…