Friends of Park Wood Festival 2010
This years festival is on Saturday 11th September and will include a display by Havant Borough Tree Wardens. Admission is free and the event is for all the family. Activities include:
Face painting
Storytelling
Treasure Trail
Wood turning
About 30 organisations are confirmed as participants, including British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, Hampshire Wildlife Trust and The South Downs Group, Country Park Spinners, Slow Food Solent, The Sustainability Centre, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and others.
See the Friends of Park Wood web site for more details.
Posted: August 12, 2010
Last updated: August 12, 2010
Tree Warden display at 2010 Hampshire Water Festival
Some photos of the Water Festival event at Staunton Park in July 2010:
Havant Borough Tree Warden display at the Water Festival
Stall included displays by BTCV, Friends of Park Wood and Brook Meadows
Posted: July 25, 2010
Last updated: July 25, 2010
Portsmouth & Southsea Tree Wardens
Portsmouth and Southsea Tree Wardens formally came into existence In March
2010 after an inaugural meeting on 25 February. They have a web
site at this URL:
http://www.portsmouthsouthseatreewardens.co.nr
They are having a Tree ID walk guided by Jon Stokes around Milton Park on Sunday 23 May 2010 2pm – 4pm.
Posted: April 1, 2010
Last updated: April 1, 2010
Understanding Trees – Training Course
The Arboricultural Association is running a weekend training course in May, 2010 called ‘Understanding Trees’.
“This new course has been developed to help the general public
and those with a particular interest in trees, to raise awareness
of basic but essential elements of arboricultural understanding,
and to enable those with a natural interest in trees to further their
knowledge, both for their own benefit and also to help society at
large make better informed judgements on
tree-related matters.”
Date: 7-9 May 2010
Place: Preston Montford, Field Studies Centre, Shrewsbury. SY4 1DX.
Course Tutor: Julie Sadler
For further information and booking form, please go to
www.trees.org.uk/course.php
Posted: March 29, 2010
Last updated: March 29, 2010
Emsworth children plant trees at their school
Local Tree Wardens in Emsworth assisted school children from Emsworth Primary School to plant 30 trees in their school grounds in December 2009, as a part of the National Tree Week. The trees, a mixture of Silver Birch, Wild Cherry and Rowan, were supplied for free by the Woodland Trust Tree For All scheme. The Tree Wardens prepared the ground in advance of the children planting the trees. On the day of planting, groups of children were brought out to plant the trees at the prepared site in the school grounds. John Green a Havant Borough Tree Warden demonstrated how the trees should be planted and later planted an Elm and 2 Oaks in the school grounds.
Posted: February 6, 2010
Last updated: February 6, 2010
Tree planting at Jubilee Park
Tree Wardens in the Waterlooville area helped the BCTV voluntary organisation plant trees at Jubilee Park recently. Most of the work however, was done by youths from the PETA training organisation, who helped plant some 150 tree whips in various locations of the park. Rachel Moroney from BCTV gave a quick lesson in planting the whips, before about 10 youths and some tree wardens marched off with spades and gloves to do some planting.
Posted: November 19, 2009
Last updated: November 19, 2009
Tree O’Clock
The BBC are running a pledge scheme that involves people planting a tree at mid-day on the 5th Dec 2009. The idea is called Tree O’clock at the time of writing 209,953 trees were pledged in 66 countries. For more information go to the BBC Breathing Spaces web site.
Posted: November 9, 2009
Last updated: November 9, 2009
Warblington Seed collection session to be on Radio 4
Jon Stokes and Havant Borough Tree Warden Jamie Brum were recorded with Pippa Greenwood for Radio 4, Gardners’ Question Time this month. They were collecting seeds at Warblington Churchyard helped by children from Mengham Junior school, Hayling Island.
The radio show will be broadcast on Friday 2nd October at 3pm and will be available on iPlayer.
Posted: September 22, 2009
Last updated: February 6, 2010
Green Balloon Club Week
This week is the Green Balloon Club Week. A week of activities for under 6s, parents and carers to do one thing for nature. For more details visit the BBC Breathing Places page.
Posted: July 27, 2009
Last updated: July 27, 2009
Talking Trees in Havant
Ann Jolly, a Havant Borough Tree Warden is doing a talk on 15 April about the nurturing of trees. The event is sponsored by Friends of the Earth.
Where and When: 15 April 7.30pm. Nineveh, 11 The Pallant, Havant.
Posted: April 14, 2009
Last updated: April 18, 2009