Our planting down the north this week went very well. The rain radar forecast was miserable; prolonged steady rain. And driving north – to our most northerly planting yet – I was met with four foot wide rivers of rainwater rushing down every hill.

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Tree Planting at Smeale, near Andreas at 11.00 a.m. on Sunday, 12th April 2015.

At Knock e Nean, Smeale, near Andreas, we have been asked to plant a mixture of trees across a field corner, and to create a hedgerow along a second field, with a few infill trees in an area already planted by the landowner.  We will be planting in fields which have easy access, so no great hills to clime or distances to tramp.

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Our latest planting was at a site in the shade of the magnificent, brooding and mighty North Barrule. A beautiful site on a slope leading down to a newly formed pond fringed with old and interestingly shaped Scots pines.

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