On Sunday 24th we are Tree Planting in Kilborn Park for the second time with Nature Rangers and North Northamptonshire Council 10am-1pm. In December we planted 300hawthorn, dogwood, wild cherry, silver birch, rowan and hazel trees. This time we have a further 400 to go in, bring your spades and join in from 10am!. All welcome, we would like everyone like to come and plant trees!
After a successful planting session in December (see video and header picture) we are returning to Kilborn park in Wellingborough (see map) and this time we are planting lots more trees! We will have tea and coffee available, plus hand washing facilities. Meet at our Tree Planting Station on the corner of Kilborn Road.
Thanks to an amazing young lady called Fiona, we have trees to plant and an area to plant them in. She has ordered the trees on behalf of Wellingborough Eco Group and organised this with the support of North Northamptonshire Council. The trees are being donated by the Woodland Trust and have been delivered to her, ready for Sunday. Thank you for the trees Woodland Trust, thank you for your support North Northamptonshire Council and thank you Fiona!
Do join us to plant trees in Kilborn Park on Sunday 24th March from 10am til 1pm!
We have 400 trees and will start planting these in Kilborn Park on the 24th March. We will have to see how the planting goes to see if we have any to put elsewhere, the spare trees will join others at our tree nursery on our Community Allotment and heeled in. The trees are a mixture of hawthorn, dogwood, wild cherry, silver birch, rowan and hazel. The trees will be planted in an area of the park on the slope near Kilborn Close and along Kilborn Road. Do join us to plant trees!
Introducing the Dutch campaign Meer Bomen Nu (“more trees now”) they collect young trees and shrubs in nature areas and parks to give them away for free to civilians and farmers who want to plant them. With thousands of volunteers, they collect birches where they overgrow the heather, they collect seedlings that are too close to a path, young shrubs that need to make way for buildings, or they collect a ecologically responsible amounts of seedlings in places where they grow in abundance. They only harvest with permission of the forester or landowner.
Let’s save saplings and make trees available for everyone to plant!
This campaign has now come the the UK and Ireland, and we at Wellingborough Eco Group are joining in with them. The winter months from November to March are perfect for transplanting trees, because they are asleep. If you have spare or unwanted saplings, please share them with us at ECO HUB or at our Community Allotment, where we have been doing this for five years on a smaller scale, many of which have now been transplanted from our tree nursery to other locations in and around Wellingborough.
Last two winters Meer Bomen Nu transplanted 850.000 seedlings from knee- to man height and 80% survived. So far 2000 volunteers have helped with harvesting the trees which ended up in gardens, fields and farms of more than 800 unique civilians and farmers. The coming winter season they aim to reach the goal of two million transplanted trees. As last year the subscription for ‘ one million free trees ‘ sold out in less than 4 days, they are very optimistic on surpassing the 2 million goal coming winter.
If you have spare saplings or would like to have a free tree(s) or want to know more details about our tree planting morning, please message us: