Hedging our bets...

We had a big day yesterday with lots of friends and family coming to help us plant some 300 trees around the park, mostly hedging. It has been raining for 3 weeks solid, so the ground was very wet, but it stayed dry for the whole day of planting.

Here are some pics...

Above: The 200 Hornbeam as they arrived, plastic-wrapped in a large fruit box

Below: The unwrapped trees being carried to the hedging-line

Above: The first tree being planted

Below: The family contingent

Above: Nanna and Jackie

Below: Jackie and Peter

Above: A newly planted hedge (no, not just dead sticks in the ground!)

Above: The Willows all wrapped up

Below: The Willows all planted along the brook
(You can't have a Willowbrook Park without them!)

Below: The Lake full after the rains
(The grass is slow to take on the new patch of soil)

Below: The brook's become overgrown with wild grasses during the winter & needs a good clean.


And finally, while walking home across the park we came across our first free range egg.