Although we haven’t done a blog for our website since the end of September, when Richard covered our watering runs throughout the gloriously hot but dry summer of ’22, WTG has still been busy carrying out a tree maintenance programme during October and November. Additionally, committee members continue to meet once a month to organise and plan the group’s activities including the purchasing and storing of trees for our next planting season.
The first day of this autumn’s planting season began on Thursday (17th November) with the first of three planting days planned for the Templars estate, when we planted 8 beautiful cherry blossom trees and 1 stately plane around the play area. It was good for those of us in the group who had not partaken in the maintenance programme or monthly meetings to catch up having not seen each other for a few weeks! Furthermore, it was very nice too to be joined by Alex, Jane and Lauren from Aegon who kindly offered their services on what was a cold, damp, grey November day.
Our second planting day on the Templars estate is planned for 24th November and the third on 1st December, weather permitting. Please see the photo section for some more before and after photos of our morning’s planting in some very muddy conditions!
