We celebrated National Tree Week today by planting 5 oak saplings in Gillies Hill Community Woodland.
3 years ago our nursery children collected acorns and Amos Higgins planted them in the Walled Garden. We’ve watched them germinate and grow into baby oak trees when we’ve visited the garden. Today we were able to dig some of the saplings up and move them to a permanent home in the woodland.
Despite the frosty weather and some hefty tree roots our children worked hard to dig holes deep enough to make sure our little tree roots could spread and grow. We are grateful to Angus Elliott for helping us find the best place and for putting in stakes and tree guards to protect our baby trees from the deer and rabbits. We are looking forward to watching our trees grow! We wonder how long it will be before they are taller than we are!