Earlier in the year I did a report of the tree planting by the River Thames on the opposite bank to the Swift Ditch weir. Daniel has an excellent drone video of the trees, tree removal and replanting. The following are some of his pictures and all rights belong to Daniel.
Trees.
Cut Trees
Replanted Trees
More replanted trees.
Thanks, Daniel, for the video and the stills; thanks, Backstreeter, for posting them here. I probably won’t be here in 20 years time, but those trees will be giving shade to wildlife and pleasure to us humans. A splendid project.
20 years to grow I bet. Neptune wood up by Long Wittenham, Little Wittenham done the same thing, Looking nice nice but takes time. 10 years these looking ok, Wander how long before fully grown. Not a tree expert then the type of tree and where make a difference I bet 🙂
Thank you Daniel. As I understand it this was originally planted as a community woodland with 2 picnic areas in the gaps near the river (visible in the film), now sadly vandalised and burnt out. The landowner harvested the trees as a cash crop, which presumably he was allowed to do provided he replanted the woodland. However one wonders how much profit he made given the cost of the saplings and the replanting work. One sad loss was a grove of wild pear trees. They have a very small fruit which is edible when ‘bletted’ – it goes soft and brown and looks rotten.
Noticed this on today. last night, did not know, Thought the first at the time 2020 Facebook push come up with as an comment, dead or dying, What I stuck in their words,
Changed it to your answer, sort of.
Opposite the eyesore that is the unlicensed boat dump
Environmentally, number of trees is important, but so is type and diversity of trees. I wonder what has been removed and what has been planted in its place?