Grosvenor Grammar School, Belfast (2007)
Date: 30 January 2007
No. of trees planted: 300
No. of people involved: 50
Grosvenor Grammar School is set in a very nice location with a beautiful view of the Belfast Hills and is lucky to have amazingly large grounds. One year after our first visit, we went back for the second stage of our work on their developing woodland area. Thanks to the care of teachers and children at the school, the 400 trees that we planted in 2006 were doing well and had already started making the place better for wildlife and for education of the pupils.
Once more, the group of enthusiastic “Eco-Carers” were there, with their heads full of ideas for the woodland area and a very neatly organised rota of tree planting, happy to make their grounds even better. Different groups of other pupils came by during the day to help us planting around 300 new trees, including rowan, downy birch, hazel, ash, grey willow, alder and hawthorn. Our nature lovers, the Eco-Carers group also planted two bigger celebration trees by themselves, that were carefully staked and mulched.
By the end of the day, the area covered by trees had spread along the field making everybody dream about the new habitat that the area will provide for wildlife in years to come.