[Gllug] OT, Green Issues

[M.Blackmore]

Wait patiently until next spring at the end of the planting season. We
were buying a grand + worth of 2m high yew and privet and other
evergreen hedging when we noticed them grubbing up and BURNING all the
bare root beech, field maple, black and haw thorn, and so forth native
hedge trees  that hadn't been sold.

At which point we screamed "you can't do that" and they said "help
yourself" so we filled the (with all seats removed) 7 seater MPV up with
about 1200 bare rooteds in bundles of 50 or so. We've planted some 3-400
to create new native hedging along the boring wire boundary fence of our
garden on one side (about 175 foot plot length) which will make a very
dense hedge in a couple of years. Most seemed to have survived thus far.
I'd better get a really good billhook or one of those really wicked
Swedish slashing axes they use for hedgelaying over there in 2009/2010
or so!! 

The rest we gave away at the school fete, to friends and relatives ...
and surreptitiously there have been planted a couple of hundred around
the disused quarry, we'll see how many survive the rabbits and deer >;)

So its worth checking out a big nursery at the end of season when they
are clearing the years bare root, as one can score a massive freebie. I
think we have just done our "lifetime" carbon footprint balance, and
despite being "far too late" in the season to plant most seem to have
been thriving. 

Tho' thats probably as much down to the cool and very wet weather this
summer, lousy for us but excellent for baby trees without much root
which had a big shock being peremptorily uprooted and replanted when
beginning to come into leaf.

This was Nicholsons Nursery in Oxfordshire, they are on the web (can't
remember the village they are next too).

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 16:45 +0100, Sean Tohill wrote:
> Following on from the recycling threads. I have a small area of woodland 
> as part of my new house. i have spend some time clearing out lots of 
> Laurel, plus builders rubbish and other assorted rubbish. it is now time 
> to plant some trees. if anyone would like to carbon offset a new computer 
> by giving me a British native tree, have a chat to me at the gllug 
> meeting.
> 
> regards
> 
> sean

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