DID ANY OF YOU PLANT A TREE?

[gingeroof]

I have posted this on the London forum as well since my question is London specific but if any one else out there has any GG tree planting experience i would love to hear from you. I am interested on the GG impact on the urban forest so if you have illicitly planted a tree please let me know and i will nit pick your brain a little further.....Ruth

[tampopo]

Yes, PM me for details.

[woodlandguerrillas]

Hey If your still looking for people that have, or are, planting guerrilla trees, I've just started a group called Woodland Guerrillas. I've recently planted a Bay tree and in the middle of a Willow cutting rampage if any help? Feel free to give me a shout or come check out the group 
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=photos&gid=162538584758#/group.php?v=wall&gid=162538584758

[bulbil321]

Hey Ruth!

I've planted lots of trees over the years. I grow most of them from seeds I pick up off the ground or harvest right off the trees.
This is the biggest/oldest tree. It's on a bike trail I ride and I thought it would nice to have a shady place to rest and get a drink on a hot summer days bike ride. 


That little clump of green in the photo,  that looks like it's floating in air,  just under the branches on the right side of the big tree is a jacaranda tree. My girlfriend grew it from a seed from a tree down the street from our house. It's about 7 feet tall.

I know this was posted a while back but if you're still interested you can email me.

[Treelove]

funny you ask, I just began planting some on my own.

find more info there :
http://plantatreebangkok.blogspot.com/

and feel free to contact me, I know how to plant trees under European weather too ^^

[Mangerpola]

I have a great book about trees that separate them by the type of leaves. It will tell you all the information you are looking for, even the type of soil it grows in!

I can't find my copy but it's something like North American guide to something trees. It's a small book, with a brown cover.. I know that doesn't help much but if you went to a book store maybe they would have it! GL!

If you are some more information about plant tree than contact with me

Thanks

[Thistly]

I recently "moved" some year-old avocados. However they very much disliked being transplanted and still look very sorry, and so I feel    In the future I will bury their pits directly where they are supposed to go.

[cannonsblazing]

I have a great book about trees that separate them by the type of leaves. It will tell you all the information you are looking for, even the type of soil it grows in!

I can't find my copy but it's something like North American guide to something trees. It's a small book, with a brown cover.. I know that doesn't help much but if you went to a book store maybe they would have it! GL!

There is one called "The Tree Guide", and it has lots and lots of trees in it! Wonderful book, good small size.

[Thistly]

Well, I think they're rather shrubs than trees, but I am very much into Elderberries. They root very easily and so far I have successfully planted quite a few. There weren't any where I live, though they do grow wild in the wider area so I think it's ok.  Can't wait for the berries  Other than that, it's Avocados; and I am growing apple trees from seeds but they are still tiny. I am very much into edibles.   

[Thistly]

I also bought some Chestnuts at the grocery store which had started to sprout on the shelf. I don't know where to put them though. They can get quite big, and chestnuts can fall on people's heads.  Pots in the backyard, for now...

[tampopo]

yeah, good move. I have lots of chestnut trees. Lots planted out, and still some in small pots.  The poor things, they are nearly bonsaid at this stage.

You need to know where you're going to put them. they are large and not an urban back garden type tree. For their sake...

good luck with it....

[tampopo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11889768

"The government says spending ?4.2m on planting trees in towns and cities - particularly in deprived areas - will improve the quality of people's lives. Does foliage actually do this?

It is almost an accepted wisdom that a property positioned on a pretty tree-lined street surrounded by shrubbery is more appealing than its counterpart on a concrete-clad bare and barren road.

Some British and US surveys suggest a lush lawn or well-landscaped yard can improve property prices by as much as 15%.

But the government's Big Tree Plant campaign - which aims to plant one million trees in English urban areas over the next four years - claims trees are not only good for our bank balance, but they do wonders for our well-being.

And it says getting people involved in the planting process makes communities even happier.

So do people really care about trees and do they enhance lives - or is it all wishy-washy nonsense?..." it continues


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[ketusmondai]

And it says getting people involved in the planting process makes communities even happier.

So do people really care about trees and do they enhance lives - or is it all wishy-washy nonsense?..." it continues


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I help  organise community tree planting events in Northern England with www.treesponsibility.com and have seen time and time again peoples lives enhanced by the process. Also, my first ever tree planting, an apple tree semi-guerilla planting in Hulme, manchester changed my life. It was so amazing I swore to plant a fruit tree ever year, which I have managed to do so far, recently helping plant more and more whole orchards.
Currently involved with this amazing group, we've got our first orchard planting on 9th Jan 2011, http://calderclog.wordpress.com/

Re Chestnuts - people will be glad chestnuts are falling on their heads when peak oil hits home. Given they can take 30 years to bear, we ought to get them in now. Don't bother with horse chestnuts though. Sweet chestnut wood is much better than horse chestnut too, as fuel and weather proof building material.

[tampopo]

yeah, I only plant horse chestnut.

I heard it was 15 years to mature to a fruiting stage.....

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[rojersmith]

your post make me feel like you love greenery and i like it too.i have also planted lots of trees...........

[tampopo]

yeah, a willow down here...



side view



gated community!!!   



and then on the way home, met/saw the good looking actor from The Misfits filming/doing something strange with some swans, in the dark.(Robert Sheehan)
thus...


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[tampopo]

The tree is still there, in the summer...




and......






not bad, eh?