500000 trees to be. Planted throughout England

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Babamaman

Let’s hope so, because in Hove the council has had a field day felling trees, leaving the lumpy roots to make walking so dangerous.
And there doesn’t appear to be any plans for their replacements! Such shortsightedness!
Israel has been planting trees for centuries, hence the land being so green in comparison to its neighbours.

Plymouth Council felled lovely mature trees in the city centre, absolute hooligans.
Trees may be expensive for councils, maintenance and tree roots pushing up paving but make such a difference to the lives of the locals.Cities without them look brutal.

Yes, they did, an overnight operation, led by the then City Council leader. The cost altogether, including legal fees, was estimated at over £3 million.

Since then there has been a change of Council and there is a planned redevelopment of Armada Way, including trees, and apparently 35,000 trees have been planted across the city.

Another positive announcement. Good to hear. We planted a tree in our garden under the 'Queen's green canopy' celebration for her platinum jubilee.

Oh lovely. Prefer trees to more houses.

And the first thing builders do when setting up to build new estates is to get rid of all trees on the perimeter and then say oops sorry! And pay a fine.

Babamaman

Let’s hope so, because in Hove the council has had a field day felling trees, leaving the lumpy roots to make walking so dangerous.
And there doesn’t appear to be any plans for their replacements! Such shortsightedness!
Israel has been planting trees for centuries, hence the land being so green in comparison to its neighbours.

Plymouth Council felled lovely mature trees in the city centre, absolute hooligans.
Trees may be expensive for councils, maintenance and tree roots pushing up paving but make such a difference to the lives of the locals.Cities without them look brutal.

Greyduster

Is this a planned extension to the National Forest, which seems to comprise a large swathe of land across the midlands, but is hardly national.

No, it is grants to communities throughout England to plant tree in parks and streets, areas where people live and work.

Let's hope they are cared for after planting or it could be £79 million wasted.

Is this a planned extension to the National Forest, which seems to comprise a large swathe of land across the midlands, but is hardly national.

vegansrock
I was just about to ask the same question! I live near a big London cemetery, and a bunch of us volunteers who had planted some trees and hedging last winter had to organise a watering rota during the very hot weather. Thankfully there were enough of us, and we cared enough, and succeeded in keeping them alive. We actually did a far better job than the paid cemetery staff did a few years ago with some trees that the council had planted, no doubt at great expense. Our trees, the ones we had planted, and kept watered, weren't expensive at all. Some were actually donated to us, and some others were on special offer from the Woodland Trust and cost us very little.

Sounds a good idea. I love trees and would feel very sad to have to live without them But what sort of trees and where will they be planted? Young trees also need to watered and looked after.

Plus we have several mature trees, over 25 years old where l live. Near buildings and on public pavements, reservations etc. Where their roots that have cracked drains, caused subsidence in houses and caused walls to fall down.

Because they were planted in wrong place by the Council and Housing Association years ago.

We also now have to contend with the government for the go ahead with the work of connecting houses with chargers for electric cars via pavements etc. Even less room for trees in public spaces?

They planted entire forests when building here all along the new roads in the 80s, so they have thrived, but we had an almost riot when they wanted to chop just one down because it was digging up the nearby houses.

People do forget that growing trees are much better for the environment than mature ones.

But I agree they do have to be intelligent about it. Out in the fens the roadside trees are causing havoc with the roads, sucking the moisture. In peaty areas, farmers are telling of crop damage around the trees, which are taking all of the nutrients, as well as shrinking the soil.

Grassland is just as important, so perhaps part of the issue is housing and the growing trend to replace lawns and parks with patios and "playspace" in rubber and bark

1973/74/75 and 76 we planted trees in the large school field.
Our grandchildren now go to that school and we tell them about us and our friends planting them when we were their age.

Everyone volunteers to plant then but nobody wants to maintain them in a dry summer
They need proper management easy in upland areas with lots of rain very difficult in dry south

Reading these comments saddens me.
We have become such a lazy nation.
There are plenty of young people out there who could water the trees. Shouldn’t be left to the grandparents to do it!
Thank you to those who still can manage to do such a task!
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Our council have planted a lot of trees in recent years.However it seems very few of the several hundred in the fields near me look to be growing and bits of plastic sapling guards have been littering everywhere.Admittedly the very hot summer probably didn't help but its not just the planting as a box ticking exercise. It's the ongoing care that counts too until they are well established.

Way back, it was “Plant a tree in 73, plant some more in 74, keep them alive in 75, pull up dead sticks in 76.” It’s no use planting trees if no one looks after them. As a former nurserywoman, it’s heartbreaking to see supermarket plants wilted and dying for lack of care and motorway trees dead for lack of water after planting.

Fancythat on whole I agree! I adore trees but local councils can’t maintain the ones we have. There is a huge and beautiful maple 10ft away from my cottage, I’m terrified it will fall and demolish my home!

Let’s hope so, because in Hove the council has had a field day felling trees, leaving the lumpy roots to make walking so dangerous.
And there doesn’t appear to be any plans for their replacements! Such shortsightedness!
Israel has been planting trees for centuries, hence the land being so green in comparison to its neighbours.

paddyann54

Scotland plants tens of millions of trees every year,typically 55% commercial use and 45 % natural Scottish species.
In the year 23-24 there were 30 million trees planted .

Scotland accounts for 60% of UK timber production, England 20%
Scotland has far more land suitable for trees.
Scotgov have slashed their tree planting budget, England have increased theirs.

That's good to hear.

I would love to have some evergreen trees on my road. Love flowering cherry but too messy when the flowers drop.

Scotland plants tens of millions of trees every year,typically 55% commercial use and 45 % natural Scottish species.
In the year 23-24 there were 30 million trees planted .

I have planted around 25/30 trees since moving to this house but despite best efforts more that half have fallen foul of deer and squirrels stripping the bark and killing the trees. have given up now just wasting money.

I agree Eddiecat 78
An excellent idea but I wonder where they will be planted. We are losing a huge amount of greenbelt to housing and if we want to keep producing food we can't afford to lose more farmland.

Chocolatelovinggran

What a great idea. My DS was involved in a tree planting initiative on his primary school field forty years ago.
He takes great pride in pointing to these now beautiful mature trees, screening the field from the road, providing shade and birdsong for the children at play, and, of course, helping to mitigate climate change
He went on to.have a career in developing sustainability in building.

Same here. We drove past son’s old primary school a few weeks ago and were reminiscing about planting trees on their huge field. Parents were roped in to help and formed chains with buckets of water as the trees were planted.

It’s an excellent initiative. Trees are our most powerful weapon against climate change.

I’m a longtime member of the Woodland Trust which has planted around 70 million trees in the last fifty years and aims to do similar over the next 50.

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/how-trees-fight-climate-change/

I'm also the proud custodian of a 150 year old oak in my garden. It sustains so much wildlife including attracting pipistrelle bats in the evening which feed on the insects around it.

Pips and stones from fruit gets potted up as do the germinated acorns that squirrels and jays plant in the lawns. Over the years, I have donated saplings to schools and our parish council to plant in their grounds and woodland around the village hall.

We also have a village scheme where a sapling is planted to honour a new baby. Families come along annually to take a photo of their growing child beside the growing tree.