Fact:

3,000 Windsor oak trees are over 300 years old. Around 100 of them are between 600 and 1,000 years old

National Tree Week

National Tree Week is a festival created by the Tree Council to mark the start of the autumn tree planting season. We celebrated National Tree Week this year with a host of community activities across our forestry estates. At Glenlivet, children from TomintoulPrimary School and GlenlivetPrimary School were involved in the planting of native broadleaved trees on the Glenlivet Estate. The trees were planted in the school grounds at Tomintoul and alongside a community footpath next to the River Livet.

On the Windsor estate, children from the Royal School helped in the sowing of oak acorns collected from Windsor trees. The acorns were sown in root trainers at the school to be cultured over the next year with a view to planting a new native woodland at the school next year.

Pupils from Applegarth Primary School visited the Applegirth estate to see traditional 'horse logging' in operation. The visit demonstrated how timber was harvested from woodlands in the past, and how use of a horse can still be a valuable extraction method today. A tree was planted in the nearby Mansfield Arboretum, to mark the occasion of National Tree Week.

Dunster colleagues participated in a guided walk, ‘Let's Look At Real Christmas Trees’, through Crown Estate woodlands, organised with Exmoor National Park rangers.