Friday, December 5, 2014

LOST TREES TO BE REPLACED

 TREES FELLED BUT A GIANT AVENUE WILL REPLACE THEM!

As we advised sometime ago, unfortunately our historic avenue of Scots Pine Trees has failed due to old age.  We are extremely saddened by this but have found a wonderful solution.  A new avenue of redwoods will take their place!

These trees were part of the original planting scheme of some 90 years ago and the extreme weather conditions of recent years’ has not helped them.  The Council surveyed all the trees in our park and found some of them in need of  felling and others, less dramatically,  in need of  the removal of dead wood.   Many are now looking a lot healthier giving them a chance to prosper in the future. 

Our  Friends group successfully applied to Birmingham Trees for Life to help replace the dead Scots Pine trees and they agreed to fund six standard trees.  Birmingham City Council tree officers (especially James, thank you!) kindly sourced funding for an additional six trees to complete a spectacular twelve tree avenue of redwoods (Sequoia Giganteum)  which will lead up to the aspect of the historic St Nicholas Church .   Many thanks to everyone involved in achieving this solution.   


The old Scots Pine trees have now been  felled and some of their trunks left on site providing us with an opportunity to organise funding for bench carvings.   The trunks will be moved to their new spots sometime after Christmas, however the actual carvings may take a little longer.  Please email your ideas for carvings, access to funding and contacts details of artists to us.  

The first six SG’s will be planted on  Thursday 11  December 2014  by  Kings Norton J&I, Birmingham City Council and some of the Friends of Kings Norton Park.  A further six trees will be planted during 2015.
   
Once these are planted we appeal to you to help us to care for and protect this new avenue of  trees.  Please report any adverse conditions you may find the trees in or any poor treatment of them appropriately. 

To comment or find out more about being involved in our group please contact us at
Email  info.foknp@gmail.com  or  Tweet @kingsnortonpark 

      
December 2014 

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