Southern Water Biodiversity Grant funded - Hedging Our Future Project
Growing trees to create hedges at our tree nurseries.
The West Wittering Tree Nursery is a couple of years old now and we have successfully grown hundreds of trees for planting out into hedges. This process starts now with seed collection.
If you would like to contribute to the project then find a good tree growing on the MP and collect the seed / fruit. If it is acorns you find then please put them in a pot of soil as they need planting straight away. Hawthorn, blackthorn, rowan, and crab apple can be stored in containers outside as the flesh needs to rot off or be actively removed. We will happily also take tree seedlings that might pop up in lawns or inappropriate places.
October is the month when the natural bounty of the land was historically reaped and when communities prepared for winter. There is an adage that if the oak tree wears its leaves in October a hard winter maybe expected. For Keats 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', it often brings sunny days once the early morning mists have cleared, and there is a saying that October always has twenty-one fine days. The leaves start to change colour slowly as winter draws nearer: some years the autumn colours are vivid and violent, almost dazzling; other years they are soft, subdued and gentle as they fade from green to yellow, orange and red. Autumn is a wonderful season and all part of the renewal process.
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