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For the love of trees
words by Jeni Bell
I’d like to dedicate this blog post to trees.
Big trees, small trees, old trees and new trees. The trees that stay green all year round, the trees that don’t and the trees with no choice – standing skeletons, bleached bark and leafless limbs.
A blog about a newly blossoming love affair with trees.
It comes in response to last weeks National Tree Week, where the Tree Council encourage communities across the country to plant, plant, plant. Originally started in 1973 as a response to the fallout left behind from the Dutch Elm Disease epidemic of the 60’s. It has run every year since, and charities, schools, community groups and lots of others have got their hands dirty and become fully fledged tree planting advocates.
To read more head to: https://www.seekingwildsights.co.uk/home/for-the-love-of-trees
WILDLIFE WEDNESDAY
Wildlife Wednesday 5-5-2021 Another Wednesday at the Meadow Hide , this time with my wife Anne in the co-pilots seat. Or should it be wild weather Wednesday ? It’s May and today it rained , at times rather heavily, then bright sunshine , then rain , then hailstones plus thunder and lightning. Yes we had […]
THE FOX WHO WANTS TO BE A HOG
we have two hedgehog feeding bowls in our garden , protected by a clear plastic box . However this young fox has developed a taste for the hedgehogs supper…………
Here in Belgium we have every year a “boomplantdag” (a day that we plant trees).
This day ip promoted by radio and television. Usualy it’s a big succes.
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Sounds like a fab idea , I’m just starting to plan our tree planting for the meadow , we want to add around 15 to 20 trees to the site , plus replant one hedgerow
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