All our trees have now been planted and we would normally have enjoyed planting our last tree for the season, but the sleet, rain and wind rather reduced the element of enjoyment! Today we planted a single Tulip Tree – a replacement for a tree that failed in The Avenue. We did, however, abandon some…
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Sycamore, Elm and Tulip Tree – 6 February 2020
Almost the Last Plantings for this Season We are coming to the end of our planting for this season. On 6 February we added three more trees to the Witham townscape. In the field next to the Spring Lodge car park we planted a celtic maple, more familiarly known as a sycamore (sponsored by Mrs…
Planting in Flora Road – 30 January 2020
Now that work at the WW1 Memorial Park between Bramble Road and Honeysuckle Way is ended for the current season, on 30 January we turned to our own planting sites. Witham Town Council has not been able to make funds available this year on the same scale as previous years and the Group therefore has…
End of 2019/20 Planting for the World War 1 Memorial Park
On 23 January we reached the end of planting on this site for the current planting season, adding 7 more trees to bring the total to 53. By our recent standards this was a modest target and, with the excellent assistance of April, Dan, David and Lloyd from Aegon Ltd, all the trees were planted,…
Phase 2 of the World War 1 Memorial Park
We completed Phase 1 of the creation of the WW1 Memorial Park on 11 December 2019 – 25 trees planted, supported and caged. On 16 January we moved on to Phase 2 – adding 21 more trees. In a winter of frequent rain and high winds we hit good weather for the third planting day…
Creating the World War 1 Memorial Park
On 5 December 2019, a hundred years and six months after the formal ending of the First World War at the Treaty of Versailles, work began on the open ground between Bramble Road and Honeysuckle Way to create a living and long term memorial to those men of Witham who gave their lives in that…