65 volunteer-grown trees from 6ft to 6 inches leaving our Tree Library today for a local farm. They will be used to restore a farm woodland affected by Ash Dieback and planting along the farm frontage on the Thame-Aylesbury road. Species supplied include oak, rowan, guelder rose, spindle, silver birch, field maple, cherry, and some very special native trees – Wild Service. They make fruits called Chequers, which used to be popular 100 years or so ago, and gave rise to the very common pub name!
We also supplied 8 hazel and rowan for students on a school forestry course.
Our Tree Library has cared for about 200 trees this year, allowing us to take donated locally grown trees and offer free trees to community and farm projects and replace trees and infill hedges that have not survived. It’s a great volunteering role if you find it hard to get out and about for more physically demanding tree care volunteering with us. Let us know if you would like to care for a dozen or so potted trees when we replenish the Tree Library.
Or, if you’ve accidentally grown a tree and it needs a good home, drop us a message!
Thanks to Sally, Lyn, Iryna, Mark & Sadie, Chris and Jenny for looking after our Tree Library collection, and to 21st Century Thame’s sponsors Lucy Electric, Lightfoots Solicitors and B P Collins Solicitors
