Tree planting scheme Southstoke near Bath February 2024

It’s not all about felling trees!  this week Tad and the team completed a new planting scheme on the edge of Bath.

The project was for 1.16ha (= 11600 (m2) with 1344 trees in 1.2m tubes.

The trees included mixed broadleaves including oak & beech, as well as field maple, wild service and hazel.

If the wild service tree isn’t as familiar to you as the others, then ” it’s a deciduous broadleaf which can reach 25m when mature.

(Sorbus torminalis) – the bark is brown and patterned with cracked, square plates, and the twigs are slender, shiny, grey-brown and straight”.

See the Woodland Trust website for more details

Replacing trees as well

We do replace the trees we cut down!

We were in Potterne today replacing some trees within a plantation that had died –  oak, cherry, spindle and field maple.

670 trees in total.

For details of our tree services please see these pages on our website https://www.conservation-contractors.co.uk/services/tree-surgery/
and https://www.conservation-contractors.co.uk/services/tree-surveys/

March 2018

Planting 670 trees Potterne