500000 trees to be. Planted throughout England

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.

This government notice gives more detail

Local communities to receive £79 million to restore nature - GOV.UK share.google/p1vfizMZzbzsEdFK9

Anybody else remember the “Plant a Tree in 73” scheme? The following year it was “Plant some more in 74”. I had stickers. I feel old now.

Well I hope they dont plan them around here.
We are awash with them.
And they are sooo tall nowadays.

Hopefully these trees will offset the hundreds if not thousands of acres of farmland/green fields which are covered in solar farms.

I am fortunate that we still have green spaces and trees. Mind you our local council planted over a 100 saplings on the edge of a local park, they hadn’t done their due diligence as it’s a flood plain. Every single one died 🤦‍♀️

plant not plan
or did i mean plan

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.

That sounds like a good idea.

Is this a continuation of The National Trust announcement in 2024? Or is it a a new scheme.
It was also featured on countrywide.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/our-cause/nature-climate/climate-change-sustainability/our-ambition-to-establish-20-million-trees-to-tackle-climate-change

That is a wonderful idea and good to hear something positive . I wonder which species they will choose ?

fancythat

Well I hope they dont plan them around here.
We are awash with them.
And they are sooo tall nowadays.

Lucky you!

It is a new government initiative. They are talking about planting them where possible in streets and roads to make life more pleasant for the inhabitants.

Sounds good to me.

Lets hope someone is nominated to water them. Lots of trees were planted on a new development near where my DD lives - guess what they weren't watered and are now all dead.

Yesterday we parked our car in a leafy suburb road which had had a few trees replaced. Every new tree was well staked and had big green bags around them, presumably holding water fir a trickled system. If I was a resident I would ensure that the bags were kept topped up.

All the new trees were thriving.

The UK lost millions of trees in the 1987 hurricane and, of course, many to disease too.

Since then there have been several tree planting initiatives and the percentage of trees in this country has increased, thankfully. I remember buying a tree when each grandchild was born, to be planted in the National Forest.

Every scheme is a positive step forward and yes, they will need watering as this summer has proved.

The hosepipe ban in our area excludes watering trees less than 3 years old. We have planted several new trees in our road this year with bags and stakes all are thriving except one - the nominated person “ forgot” to water the tree.

Hooray! Anything that helps mitigate is good and trees are good.

It’s a start ….

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

That's good to hear.