John Gogh

Anita Pye wrote:Hi John
I have an animal sanctuary in Hampshire near Farnham I'm sure we could find some where for you to plant your trees if you are still interested.

Regards

Anita

Hi Anita, thanks so much for your reply and kind offer, I really appreciate that, sorry for my late response to this. I will get in touch soon with you to discuss this more! It looks like you run the orchard farm animal sanctuary if I'm right so I will try to make contact with you through that if that's ok.

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Sorry for the late reply guys:

Mandy: Thanks for your post and videos, that is interesting and good to know about too, I'm not familiar with that at all like many things I still have to learn about in this area. I did enjoy seeing the semi-wild horses somewhat recently around the New Forest roaming around.

James: Thank you for your post and for that information too. I suppose I've been focused more until now on what trees look nice to me, but for practical purposes and more appropriately for permaculture type principles I guess its more important to consider things like the food or fruit you can get from trees/bushes/plants rather than just the beauty of them. I'll be reading and learning more about permaculture soon as its all quite new to me so my knowledge and ideas will mature I'm sure with that too.

Hi James, thank you, I see that logic yes that's a good thing to think about too definitely. One of the trees I'll soon plant is a sweet/wild cherry tree, so that will eventually produce cherries. The others will be Oak and Yew, which I know aren't really fruit trees, but technically you can use acorns for all kinds of things, flour, coffee, snacks, when processed properly, and yew berries are edible if you avoid the pips - though I know you likely meant more popular classic fruit, though people should also forage more and use these less common food sources but I guess I am slightly eccentric in that way.

I will look at more food type trees in the future too, though I tend to like either the non-fruit trees like the above or obscurer type berry/fruit trees because less commonplace fruit or berries are more interesting to me. But I get your point, I haven't thought that much about this side of it much yet. I did consider Sweet Chestnut instead of Oak for one of my new projects but its not truly native and I prefer Oak more for how it looks (and acorns can be eaten).

Thank you very much Tim and Mandy, yes those are great ideas too! I'll try both those ideas.

That is a shame. Maybe there will be some information online about Beech in Spain if you are interested in that, or even Oak, I am very much a beginner in trees generally still so I would have no idea myself without searching online to try to find the answers to this.

I did just now get permission to plant a tree at an open air museum/experimental archaeology site locally that is open to the public so I'm very pleased with that!

Thank you very much Mandy, I have already sent an email off to Woodland Trust the other day with no reply yet but I have not contacted the New Forest Authority, thank you very much for that idea I have just sent off emails to them. I recently got interested in redwoods and though I want to stick to native English trees for the most part, I am determined to find somewhere to plan a Giant Redwood at too since they are such majestic and monumental trees when they get larger. I now have a young giant redwood tree for this project and I have begun the process to germinate seeds too for the fun of it.

Skandi Rogers: Thanks, lately I did finally get in touch with a liked minded person who mainly plants trees on private property that she asks permission for, but also in more public places, and she has been involved with more council orientated projects and such, so it may be my best bet to discuss it all more with her, we have planned to meet to discuss more ways to plant trees soon in any case. I used to live near there in Winchester too!

Mike: That is an interesting idea thanks, I'm not so great at approaching people like that, but its definitely worth considering. A new contact I made with a like minded ambition to get more trees planted does approach private/public land owners like that, so maybe as a team we will make good progress. Haha about the Royal Arborists Tree Brigade, that's a great name which sounds authentic too, (if they don't actually exist) it may come in useful some day!

Hi Skandi Rogers, thanks for the tips and advice, I will follow that up. I have also tried contacting the local council and relevant departments but that hasn't led to any success just yet.

Travis, don't worry about it. That is a shame about the state of finances over there and the crime. I doubt that people get in trouble for planting trees here either, as long as its not done very irresponsibly or harmfully.

Hi Thomas, thank you I appreciate that! No problem. I have two little tree planting projects with permission in the works which I'll do very soon, though I'd like to do more, I'll keep researching.

Hi Travis, thanks though I am in Hampshire in England not in the US, but thanks I enjoy that story! There do seem to be a lot of clandestine tree planters world wide who care about planting but encounter the same red tape and issues relating to getting permission. and thank you for the tip!

Hi, this may not be the right place at all, but thought I'd ask, does anyone know of any places ideally in Hampshire where the owner of the land/place would be happy to for at least a single tree to be planted? Or Surrey/West Sussex for that matter.

I'm trying to plant more trees for nature's sake and their beauty and its quite tough actually finding places. It would be nicer if it could be seen or appreciated from a vaguely public place or publicly accessible.

Thanks