Climate change has also taken its toll: severe storms toppling trees in full leaf and with waterlogged roots; repeated stress from long periods of drought and extreme heat, exposure to pests, disease and fungal attacks encouraged by the new climate. Species resilient for centuries, including many of our natives, now have problems including oak, beech, plane, ash, maple, horse chestnut, sweet chestnut, also members of the Rose family of trees especially cherry, apple, pear, plum.

 We work with our tree officer, choosing  and planting with care a mixture of natives and non-natives. We weed and water at lease twice weekly whilst new trees are in leaf. In autumn we sweep up leaves of the horse chestnut ravished by a leaf miner, to remove overwintering eggs.

At our last planting session we added 2 limes—Tilia cordata, Tilia Platyphyllos Rubra, a Holm oak Quercus ilex, a Monterey cypress Cupressus macrocarpa Goldcrest, a Norway maple Acer platanoides also a Persian ironwood Parrotia persica and a Japanese Zelkova

serrulata.