For the last few years, Curo has worked with local charity More Trees to improve our estates green spaces, by creating homes and food for wildlife, as well as places for the community to enjoy.
In February, representatives from Curo and More Trees came together to plant more than 600 saplings on Whiteway Green. The saplings were grown by volunteers from More Trees, who forage for seeds each year and then sew and cultivate them in their nurseries around Bath and Keynsham, until they are big enough to be planted.
The new plants have filled in the gaps between existing pockets of trees and shrubs, to help create a safe passage for animals to move around, as well as food and homes for wildlife.
Curo Arboriculturalist Danny Earle said: “There’s a huge amount of potential here. There’s pockets of vegetation, but they are sparse in places and there’s big open patches of green land between them, so wildlife struggles to move around and find new habitats and food sources.
We’ve planted around 20 different native British species here, in a real range of different sizes and different colours. There are flowering shrubs which are great for bees and butterflies, fruit trees such as Cherry trees, Apples, Rowans, Oaks and Pines, which will produce food for birds and mammals, and thorny species like hawthorn and blackthorn which make for amazing habitats.
Some non-native species were selected for their exceptional beauty, such as Liquidambar styraciflua Lane Roberts (Sweetgums), Pyrus calleryana Redspire (Callery Pear) and Betula utilis jacquemontii Snow Queen (Silver Birch Snow Queen).”
These trees will join our forest of over 8,500 trees growing across Curo’s estates and continue our commitment to nurturing our green spaces on our doorstep.
Curo Arboriculturalist Danny, and Emma from More Trees BANES tell us about the tree planing project at Whiteway Green:
See more about the great work More Trees do here https://moretrees.earth/