Another Sunday and the weather was looking good, so Darrell Taylor and I headed off to the Co-Treetment field near Thringstone in Leicestershire. As everyone knows we really do take pride in maintaining our mini-forest, formerly known as a field!
So now with 4,500 trees residing in the ground at our land, around 55% of our 1.07 hectares are full now, so we have room for around another 4,250 trees, or thereabouts. We are already looking at the layout of the land to fathom where to plant next; where to leave access corridors and how we work around the bee hives to ensure easy access, and to not disturb them.
We were blown away to see what had happened since we began planting 4 years ago. Some trees sit at 6 metres (20ft) high in the trentbarton area; and there’s a graduated step down as we move towards the gate that reflects the years of planting and the subsequent tree growth.
We set about tidying up; focusing on checking the bee hives; the posts we had dividing the land; plaques and changing the tree guards on around 200 trees from black to clear. We had noticed a poor return on planting when using the black tree guards, our hypothesis being that the tree sees less light and heat in their crucial early growing days which stunts their growth.
Of course none of our work is possible without our customers, and whilst some might only buy a few, some of our customers, individuals and businesses buy 100’s of trees. Irrespective of the numbers purchased we do maintain the field for all trees so that the forest can remain as a lasting legacy for the future.
We currently 9 area plots where there are batches of 100 trees or more belonging to single purchasers. The plots that we marked out during this time were:-
AMG Wealth, Senior Partner Practice of St. James’s Place
BOAL Extrusion UK
Cosy Direct
Dynomite Video Production Agency
EmailOctopus
P. Ducker Systems Ltd
Rolls-Royce
Simon Crane
trentbarton
We have of course a lot of trees planted, in fact it is 756 now, that support the Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre, which are dispersed amongst the various customer allocations. This is a tremendous number of trees that have so far helped to provide funds for 8 children to go to the holiday home in Skegness.
Thanks again to each and every one of our customers, you make us what we are today; we will continue to be add more plaques as more customers purchase trees and reach the 100 mark! If you’d like to join our growing customer list then please feel free to visit our online shop – link shared below:-
https://lnkd.in/ehSpDp6y
Simon Evans MBA
Darrell Taylor
Keith CoxA somewhat busy weekend, what with the exploits of fundraising for Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre on Saturday (on Simon Evans MBA posting area), on Sunday 23rd June the team Co-Treetment, visited the field after a few weeks away. The weather these last couple of months has been up and down; on Sunday it was very much up, 26C and we scheduled a maintenance day.
As many of you as you know there has been a few years of planting so now 4500 trees reside in the ground at our land. It doesn’t seem long ago that we had a bare field!
We as ever, were amazed to see what had happened since our last visit; the grass was at knee height all around and the trees in some areas at house height! We have tried to capture this in the attached images.
We set about tidying up; that means a lot of grass cutting which we do, not because we like tidy fields, but to prevent a reoccurrence of fly-grazing, which we reported on a couple of years back.
Unbelievably our equipment was all working so we were able to deal with both sides of the 3 acre field, however it was still hard work in hot conditions. Ironically all of us there on the day are hay fever sufferers but we took regular breaks and kept ourselves hydrated and dosed with antihistamine which was essential.
We also were able to add to our collection of names with a dedicated plaque for Cosy Direct and Simon Crane to mark their purchases (we do this where over 100 trees are bought).
Of course none of our work is possible without our customers, and whilst some might only buy a few, some of our customers, individuals and businesses buy 100’s of trees. Irrespective of the numbers purchased we do maintain the field for all trees so that the forest can remain as a lasting legacy for the future.
So currently we have been able to identify 9 area plots where there are batches of 100 trees or more belonging to a single purchaser.
The plots that we marked out during this time were:-
AMG Wealth, Senior Partner Practice of St. James’s Place
BOAL Extrusion UK
Cosy Direct
Dynomite Video Production Agency
EmailOctopus
P. Ducker Systems Ltd
Rolls-Royce
Simon Crane
trentbarton
We also found a common frog which we have shared an image of, and moved it to a safe area, checked in on the bees (more to follow on that story in a later post), and were proud of what we had achieved on Sunday.
Thanks again to all of our customers, each and everyone of you make us what we are today; we will be adding even more plaques again shortly as more customers have been generously purchasing trees.
Simon Evans MBA
Darrell Taylor
Keith Cox
