Our Annual Big Tree Plant is happening tomorrow Saturday 14th March.
If you feel like helping, then come along.
Get in touch to let us know,
you will be made very welcome.
Have a quick listen to our very own jingle: Fibrous Roots created for us by Andy Harden. If you want to join us on the plot, helping to grow trees for charity, then please do get in touch
We've grown them, dug them up,
and now some of them are in Pitville Park
Our latest outing was to Pitville Park here in Cheltenham where we helped the Friends of Pittville Park to plant a number of trees. Here we are getting a group of Lime trees together, which future generations will thank us for, we hope. Thanks to the Friends for taking them and giving them a new home where they can mature. If you want to be a Friend of Pittville Park, then take a look at them here. We found them particularly friendly; they even brought cake! Alternatively, if you want to be a friend of ours too, then get in touch.
A little bit of rain was not going to put us off
from our February working party.
In fact, there was quite a lot of rain, but that still did not stop us from getting together our trees that are being readied for distribution. Much digging in the wet was the mantra for the day. Fortifications of tea and biscuits helped keep morale high.
Thanks to all those who came along. Feel like joining us, then get in touch. We are a friendly tree-hugging group who are totally unafraid of a bit of rain. Here's a short video illustrating the sort of trees we have available, and the magic of fibrous roots!
A good turn out for our January working party
Despite being surrounded by bad weather, a lot of wet, we had a great turnout for our first January working party, and we had clear blue skies for the day. We had a visit from the plot Robin too. Much good works done. Thanks to everyone who turned out.
We have trees ready for you to reserve
After a very useful working party this Saturday morning October 11th we now have a comprehensive list of all our fine British native trees. A big thanks for the big turnout of volunteers, apart from that website bloke who only took pictures and asked questions, and now he's writing this. Our two volunteer Duke of Edinburgh Award seekers Austin and Ben gave us some extra muscle and brought our age demographic down a tad.
Thanks for all your help.
Our tree list is on here and on our Facebook page soon, then all you have to do is reserve the tree or trees that you'd like, and we will keep them for you until it's time to collect.
They will be available for a donation of £10.00 ( or more if you wish ) per tree.
We've got some lovely trees!
Any questions, then do get in touch here
Ben and Austin after working hard on our plot take in some interesting tree chat from
Chris our tree expert with Nigel and Matt listening in
Tree Group October
This may well be Cheltenham's oldest tree!
Photographed recently this may well be at least 400 years old and might even be 500 years or more. If it is 400 years old it started growing this is what was happening in the country:
Four hundred years ago, around the early 1620s, the Thirty Years' War was raging in Europe, a devastating conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism that caused immense loss of life and reshaped the political landscape.
In North America, the Mayflower set sail from England, carrying early settlers known as Pilgrims to the New World, and the first enslaved Africans arrived in the British colony of Virginia, marking the beginning of a tragic chapter in history. Meanwhile, in Britain, the seeds were being sown for the upcoming English Civil War, as conflicts between Parliament and the Monarchy were escalating.
Why not go along to this Zoom event and find out all about Community Tree Nurseries, it's free and might give an insight into how these things are done.
Go here for your ticket
Boosting Community Tree Nurseries:
a free lunch and learn workshop
Tue 23 Sep 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM BST Online, Zoom
A community tree nursery (CTN) is a group of people who come together to collect seed, grow trees and then sell or give them away. Join us for an exclusive launch of our research into Community Tree Nurseries, led by Jon Stokes, Jackie Shallcross from The Tree Council, and Emma Cross from Norfolk County Council.
This first-of-its-kind study explores how a network of volunteers across the country are making a difference - and how we can help support their future.
We knew that CTNs existed across the country, but we lacked a clear understanding of who they were, where they were located, how many trees they produced and what other benefits they contributed to local communities. This pilot represents a first step on a pathway to supporting a thriving network of CTNs across England.
A presentation detailing the research and its findings will be followed by an open Q&A, for which we will be joined by Emma Cross, Trees Outside Woodland project officer at Norfolk County Council, who also participated in the pilot.
This talk is part of a series sharing the outcomes of our Trees Outside Woodland trials, in partnership with Defra, Natural England, Kent County Council, Chichester District Council, Cornwall Council, Norfolk County Council, and Shropshire Council which seeks to identify cost-effective methods that could be adopted by local authorities to increase tree canopy cover in England.
A Saturday morning in August and the weeds have gone barmy...they hadn't reckoned with the working party!
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Our May 12 Saturday turnout where we relocated some trees and planted a few that had been donated. All trees carefully watered before planting on a very fine and warm Saturday morning.
Planting, talking, connecting and sampling some fine tea and biscuits supplied by Nigel.
The light was just right for a few casual portraits. What a fine set of faces!
Thanks to everyone!
