Residents (and businesses) sponsor trees in their local area, which are then planted by the council if the chosen favoured spot is suitable. Each tree has one or more Tree Champions that take responsibility for watering the new trees.
In my part of London, the costs are £170 (if I water it) or £275 (if the council waters it) for a 3-4 metre staked and tied nursery stock standard tree.
Planting trees is brilliant! I must’ve planted hundreds in my life. But it is just as important to look after the trees that have been planted. Brian May (yes, that Brian May) paid for thousands of trees to be planted near where I live in Dorset. And then they were just left. There wasn’t as much money to look after them. 10 years later when I moved to the area I saw a forest of plastic tubes and trees that were struggling.
Now every Sunday morning I meet up with other women of a certain age and we release the trees. It’s very rewarding as we can already see the effect in patches of this young woodland.
I walk in wooded areas every day. Sometimes alone. Sometimes with my dog. I Always say Hello to the Trees, the Bushes and whatever else is sprouting from the ground, thanks to Mother Nature's endless array of Lovely Delights. It's where I feel the most Connected!!! And, oh yes, thanks to my busy wife, our yard is also very Lush with Growing & Flowering Delights!!!
Big fan of trees myself. We could all do worse than channel our inner Janet Willoner who has grown more than 4000 trees in her garden (she doesn't keep them in her garden as they grow..that would be ridiculous). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq87q90nx31o
Have a look at the book “Shade: the promise of a forgotten natural resource” by Sam Bloch. It addresses some of the same issues and adds depressing information about how eagerly some cities cut down trees and how little they do to maintain them.
Seems like a lot of things are named Prometheus. I gave a talk recently that included Prometheus as a moon of Saturn and Prometheus as a long-lived volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io. Now a tree, and what else?
The UK has a tree sponsorship scheme called Trees For Streets https://www.treesforstreets.org/
Residents (and businesses) sponsor trees in their local area, which are then planted by the council if the chosen favoured spot is suitable. Each tree has one or more Tree Champions that take responsibility for watering the new trees.
In my part of London, the costs are £170 (if I water it) or £275 (if the council waters it) for a 3-4 metre staked and tied nursery stock standard tree.
Planting trees is brilliant! I must’ve planted hundreds in my life. But it is just as important to look after the trees that have been planted. Brian May (yes, that Brian May) paid for thousands of trees to be planted near where I live in Dorset. And then they were just left. There wasn’t as much money to look after them. 10 years later when I moved to the area I saw a forest of plastic tubes and trees that were struggling.
Now every Sunday morning I meet up with other women of a certain age and we release the trees. It’s very rewarding as we can already see the effect in patches of this young woodland.
https://youtube.com/shorts/wg3yfitujBU
Trees are ace.
I walk in wooded areas every day. Sometimes alone. Sometimes with my dog. I Always say Hello to the Trees, the Bushes and whatever else is sprouting from the ground, thanks to Mother Nature's endless array of Lovely Delights. It's where I feel the most Connected!!! And, oh yes, thanks to my busy wife, our yard is also very Lush with Growing & Flowering Delights!!!
Big fan of trees myself. We could all do worse than channel our inner Janet Willoner who has grown more than 4000 trees in her garden (she doesn't keep them in her garden as they grow..that would be ridiculous). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq87q90nx31o
Get oil companies to plant trees. All you need to do is tell them that one day they'll be oil.
Have a look at the book “Shade: the promise of a forgotten natural resource” by Sam Bloch. It addresses some of the same issues and adds depressing information about how eagerly some cities cut down trees and how little they do to maintain them.
Have a look at the book “Shade: the promise of a forgotten natural resource” by
Seems like a lot of things are named Prometheus. I gave a talk recently that included Prometheus as a moon of Saturn and Prometheus as a long-lived volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io. Now a tree, and what else?