Tree planting scheme Southstoke near Bath February 2024

Posted on 28 February 202428 February 2024 by Debbie Newman

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

New oak gate posts for The Church of All Saints at West Lavington

Posted on 28 August 202230 January 2023 by Debbie Newman

The soft wood gate posts had failed so it was decided to go for a more befitting option.

The posts and labour costs were donated by a local parishioner.

To see other examples of our gates, please see our Fencing and Gates page here

New Spiderlift 23m tracked Cherry Picker/MEWP

Posted on 7 July 202230 January 2023 by Debbie Newman

Here are some images of our new Spiderlift 23m tracked Cherry Picker/MEWP/aerial platform.

We were working for Devizes Town Council to reduce a large 30m Oak Tree within Hillworth Park, Devizes

Full details of our new MEWP will be posted on our website shortly. It is available for hire. Just contact William for details.

150m native hedging and 500 new trees planted in Lavington

Posted on 4 December 202031 January 2023 by Debbie Newman

Not only pruning and removing trees but planting as well!

100m of new, native hedging planted by Tad by hand yesterday in Easterton, near Devizes.

The planting mix was 80% hawthorn with the remainder made up of spindle, dog rose and hazel – no blackthorn as there will be horses in the field in the future.

Hawthorn in hedging has a lot of great seasonal features including haws, hips, nuts, flowers and sloes, so white flowers in the spring. And then the berries and nuts will attract a diverse range of wildlife.

Update Dec 2020: The 100m continued to 150m of the new native hedging, as well as 500 new trees – a mixture of oak, beech, rowan, spindle and cherry. As with the hedging, all the trees were planted by Tad by hand.

The field was purchased in addition to the house and the owners wanted to create a woodland in years to come. The trees were part-funded by The Woodland Trust.

Replacing trees as well

Posted on 13 April 2018 by Debbie Newman

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