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More trees for Welsh House Farm Estate

 

Last year, in fact the very same week, we were joined by pupils from Welsh House Farm Community School and the local community to plant 10 trees in the area at the rear of the flats in Selcroft Avenue. Once again today,  we enlisted the help of the year 3 Gardeners Club at Welsh House Primary to add 3 more trees in the same area. We were joined on site by a local Councillor, and some members of the local Community Group as well as a representative of the sponsors and our local Park Ranger.  You can see them all hard at work here!

Well done to everyone for putting up with the morning fog and drizzle……but I think we were lucky. As we left the site the rain began pounding down and the wind started to whip around the blocks. A sign of the weather to come?

Avenue of trees for Senneleys!

The Friends, and pupils from Woodcock Hill Primary School, helped plant 10 new interesting standard trees along one of the central avenues in the park today. Catch them in action via this link

Today was unusual as the adults on site out numbered the pupils , but that was mainly due to the exceptional turn out of members from the Friends of the park. (There are 2 missing from the photo above !)Once again we were blessed with glorious sunshine and really pleased to see that our whip planting, done a few years ago, was already resembling an area of woodland! You can see them all standing proud in front of the more mature trees.

The pupils today enjoyed a long walk through the park, searching for bugs in dead trees, spotting squirrels and kicking up the carpet of leaves…..and still had time to plant our trees!