We are now into the 2022 tree planting season and the Friends of Lewes Urban Arboretum team is focussing on Malling, the Wallands, Winterbourne, and Landport areas. First up on Sunday 20th November was Malling, where the team planted 12 street trees on the verges and open spaces on Fitzgerald Road, Queen’s Road, and Barn Road. On Prince Charles Road they planted a new Elm to replace the marvellous Wheatley Elm which had to be felled because of Dutch Elm Disease. The replacement Elm is an Ulmus “Homestead”, a hardy variety with very good resistance to Dutch Elm Disease and fungal infections. All twelve trees will be funded by a donation from the Rotary Club of Lewes as their contribution to the Queen’s Green Canopy.
During National Tree Week, which ended on 4 December, the team planted seven more trees in Ferrers Road in the Wallands, in response to requests from the residents. The varieties of Hawthorne, Crab Apple, Judas Tree, and Field Maple will all grow into relatively small trees and provide a variety of blossom and fruits.
In all the team plans to plant 45 trees this season, and are very grateful to the Lewes District Council and East Sussex County Council officers who gave the Friends of Lewes permission to plant the trees, and supplied the service maps of underground utilities. They have also generously included FoL in their Local Authorities Treescapes Fund grant – which will pay for 20 of the 45 trees we are planting this season.
If this wasn’t enough, the team also planted 46 whips at the Lewes District Council’s Saxonbury House on Juggs Lane, to start off their wildlife hedge, plus a Liquidambar as a specimen tree at the end of the wildflower meadow which they sowed there earlier this year.
More information and photos on our Tree Planting page.
Friends of Lewes Trees Committee team with a new planting on Fitzgerald Green
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