In tribute of the Queens Diamond Jubilee, the Woodland Trust have recently announced their plans for a commemorative woodland. The initiative looks to purchase a introductory five hundred acres for the new site from miscellaneous tame and civic moor owners
Free Trees!
The thought could be regarded as an homage to the King George VI project that the Queen Mother spear headed in 1936. As a desire standing reliquary to our monarch’s point on the throne, the plan includes the planting of over six million new trees around the British isles
The purpose of this, besides its obvious ecological benefits, is that their be an organic legacy of beauty and longevity for the public to enjoy and for point to endure. The two hundred hectare envisage is estimated to cost approximately five million pounds, this unit including sleep costs, planting and prolongation and further production the forests join for the civic with additions of device posting and footpaths However the grasp of federal involvement doesn’t pause at unworldly spectatorship – the aim furthermore fantasy to snap up another fifty nine sites for forestation that would complement and accentuate the much larger starring woodland
These tertiary sites would size around sixty acres each, bringing the aggregate scale of the project to over four thousand acres of British countryside, with the planting of the preliminary half million attack November this year.
A smaller planting envisage has besides been initiated, this on a much supplementary intimate scale, as local communities retain been awarded tree planting packs with which to devise their retain commemorative woodland to assistance the suppose meet its six million tree target In decorate of this, the forestry aim hold organized a unshackle consign away of ‘planting packs’ to schools and communities, who can apply through their website They doctor your planting crew to consult the local fold and accommodate owners for their finest and also to involve as many people as practicable to ensure its success. There are 1,000 packs to be had and they bequeath be dispensed in two types, one containing 105 saplings and the supplementary 420 saplings each, ranging between 20cm and 40cm Each pack bequeath further contain a glorious Oak sapling groomed from a devotee endemic to the august gardens, in honour to the generation of the project The packs containing the larger quantity of saplings bequeath besides include canes and protective spirals in decree to ensure their safeguard through adolescence. The genre included in each pack have been selected based on four distinct themes and you can choose which burden you leave embed in your application The Wildlife pack contains blackthorn, hawthorn, hazel, birch, rowan and oak while the Year Round pack focuses on greater longevity with the addition of dogwood and cherry The Woodfuel pack introduces ash and hornbeam and finally the Wildharvest pack makes the fruity contribution of elder, crab apple and dog rose.
Although, if you want your fold to be a measure of this vast undertaking, then blessing apply to the Woodland Trust promptly as the deadline for application is the 25th of September.
Following her grandmother, the Queen Mothers example, Princess Anne leave serve as theatre helper for the project that is form to spark all Britons horticultural interest
