Advice from Treeconomics
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More and more UK councils are ‘rewilding’ their parks and lawns:
Beijing and indeed across China is doing more, as Ray Mears discovered last night:
Wild China with Ray Mears – Watch episodes – ITV Hub
With an ambitious programme for the capital:
210 million trees planted in Beijing in 40 years : The Tribune India
This is part of an impressive national programme:
WIDER IMAGE China farmers push back the desert – one tree at a time | Reuters
Climate change: China’s forest carbon uptake ‘underestimated’ – BBC News
Tim Smit of the Eden Project is also working in China, where cities are “really looking at planting schemes”:
Cities need to become like villages to survive, says Eden Project founder
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Sidmouth town council’s environment committee met on Monday – and had as guest speaker Keith Sacre, co-founder of Treeconomics, who have given key advice to the Sidmouth Arboretum over the years:
Environment-Agenda-120721v2.pdf
And he talked urban trees – in particular about which trees to plant.
Here are a couple of articles which Keith has written on ‘urban trees’:
i-Tree focus | Tree planting strategies
Diversity in urban tree populations
Indeed, it’s all about chosing the right tree, especially with climate change in mind:
The tree hunter | Society of Garden Designers
Resilience – Future Proofing Plant Health – Forest Research
Finally, there are schemes out there to help finance tree-planting in urban areas – where match-funding can be provided in kind and not just in cash:
44,000 trees to be planted as Urban Tree Challenge Fund reopens – GOV.UK
The Big Give Green Match Fund | Trees for Cities
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These pages have also featured urban planting:
Trees in town – Vision Group for Sidmouth
Planting trees on our streets: Retreefit campaign – Vision Group for Sidmouth
Our Trees in Sheffield: why we care so much about urban trees – Vision Group for Sidmouth
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