blue kipper Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 6 years ago today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catchy Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 What is this is it a picture of the millenium wood before it was planted? What does it look like now I wonder, I have not ever been there. I can't imagine the trees are very high yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 No, they are just saplings. Good place for walking the dogs, with plenty of bins, Catchy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catchy Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 bins, what would I need bins for when walking the dogs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Putting your crisp bags in, perhaps? It's a very convenient place, for me, to walk the dogs and there are always several other dog walkers there who are very relaxed about pooches interacting (even snarling at each other). Give it a go, but please pick up the poo, because dogs will undoubtedly be be banned if you (and the others that walk there) don't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamHandwich Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Went down the Oakwood today...not so much an Oakwood, more a field full of plastic tubes. It's a shame given the potential there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Anyone with any sense whatsoever could have predicted that planting 1000s of oak trees a foot apart from each other was not likely to end in success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 All planted by giving the Island's primary school kids a tree each to plant, wasn't it? I remember Andy Wint covering it on MR. Those kids will be in their early/mid twenties now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamHandwich Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Problem seems to be exposure to the wind. The trees have grown quite well around the edges where they're sheltered by the hedges but there's nothing in the middle. They probably should have planted something fast growing and hardy amongst the oaks to give them some shelter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war baby Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 I went up there once. It was a big field full of plastic tubes containing mostly dead twigs. I asked the man cutting the grass what happened. He said he told them this would be the result, but nobody listened. The very young trees were planted into directly the grass and the soil around the base was not cleared or weeded. They were never watered. Plus it's on the side of a wind blasted hill. Not the natural habitat of a little quercus! What a pity. A good idea gone wrong. Maybe the children should have been encouraged to tend their 'own' tree. Lessons would have been learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monasqueen Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Don't trees need their own individual large space to grow properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 It's just a huge dog toilet. Never ending streams of dog walkers emptying their dogs all day long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTaxPayer Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Anyone with any sense whatsoever could have predicted that planting 1000s of oak trees a foot apart from each other was not likely to end in success Actually, it makes sense to plant loads close together. When they reach a certain size you can sacrifice the weedier specimens to make space for the strong ones. Cruel to be kind innit. Standard practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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