Today is the start of #NationalTreeWeek in the UK.
It’s the start of the planting season, which is from the end of November until March.
#trees planting is frowned on by some who favour only natural regeneration, but there’s a place for both if planting is done to complement & reconnect smaller fragments of ancient #woodland on a landscape scale.
It can have a massive positive impact on biodiversity as seen at Heartwood #Forest in St Albans.
Here’s an image from there.
@Judeet88 . . . .The struggle is that, depending on the size of the site and the planting event, there may be upwards of 1,000 trees being planted on any given day and perhaps 50-60k planted in a season on just one site. While plant passports have got better, the passport generally ends at the planting site without significant additional overhead.
As the trees are planted very close together (science reasons), it would be difficult to navigate to individual trees without damaging others.
@Judeet88 btw, here's something I hadn't seen before... it's the sapling survival rate by species at Heartwood, 1 year after planting. There were 2 years left to plant at this point, so the data is based on approx 500k saplings.
Ash is the main anomaly due to chalara ash dieback being discovered on the site in 2012. It's pretty effective at killing young saplings - in some cases it can take a matter of weeks for the disease to rip through a sapling's water transport system.
Tim Smalley
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