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Half price locally farm grown trees are back for the autumn planting season!…

Half Price Trees are back!…
Last year I teamed up with a local farmer to offer a great range of healthy, good sized home grown trees at around half the price you’d find at a nursery or garden centre. Now the autumn planting season has arrived it’s a great opportunity to plant a tree. Please contact me by phone/text/whatsapp on 07783 276265 or email [email protected] to enquire or order.

Availability list;

(Sizes approximate)

Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) 4ft £35 each

* Native * Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) 3ft-4ft £25 each

* Native * Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) 8-10ft £35 each

Copper Beech (Fagus sylvatica f.purpurea) 4ft £25 each

* Native * Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) 4-6ft £20 each

* Native * Oak (Quercus robur) 3-4ft £20 each

* Native * Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) 4-6ft £30 each

* Native * Lime (Tilia cordata) 6ft £30 each

* Native * Field Maple (Acer campestre) 8ft £35 each

Norwegian Maple (Acer platanoides) 8ft £35 each

* Native * Hazel (Corylus avellana) 4ft £25 each

* Native * Silver Birch (Betula pendula) 6-10ft £35 each

* Native * Downy Birch (Betula pubescens) 6-10ft £35 each

I can also quote on local delivery and planting if required.

Warren B - the wildlife garden design offshoot of Warren John Brace Garden Design

-Garden design with free consultations
-Soft landscaping
-Planting
-Ongoing maintenance

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Beat next year’s heat and get planting now…

This summer was a bit much.
Next summer might be even hotter.
But there is something many of us can do to help keep cool.
Plant a tree.

The shade created by a tree can provide much needed relief from summer temperatures; on a hot day the ground under a single tree can be around 20C cooler than surrounding ground in full sun. With hard surfaces the difference in temperature can be even more. In full sun some surfaces can become hot enough to cause burns whereas the same surfaces in the shade of a tree can feel refreshingly cool to the touch. This can make a huge difference to our comfort and health as well as that of pets and wildlife. But it goes even further than that. If overall tree cover in residential areas is increased to around 30-40% the average air temperature can be lowered by as much as 5C. Trees shade heat absorbing surfaces such as roads, walls and paving which would otherwise store the heat and radiate it back into the air. The action of transpiration (water moving from the ground through a tree and evaporating into the air) also actively cools the air like a natural air conditioning system. So the more people who choose to plant a tree the better it is for everyone. Strategically placed trees can even help control temperatures indoors. Deciduous trees positioned to shade a house wall or roof can help keep the house cooler in the summer but let the sun warm the same wall or roof in winter when the leaves have fallen. If a space is not suitable for a tree then shrubs or planted screens/overhead structures can provide the same benefits.
There are thousands of different types of trees to suit almost any location and shade isn’t all they can offer; trees can of course provide beauty, biodiversity, flowers, food and wellbeing. Humans were once a forest species. Studies into mental wellbeing demonstrate that being able to just see a tree has a profound positive impact on our ability to deal with stress and even boosts our cognitive abilities. This in turn can improve our overall mental and physical wellbeing.
They say that the best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, but the next best time is now. I’d second that. Particularly with next year’s weather potentially being another round of droughts and heatwaves. Planting in autumn rather than spring gives trees and plants some extra time before winter to get some roots down which makes them better equipped to cope with a hot, dry spring and summer. And don’t forget, most water companies allow the watering of newly planted trees with a hosepipe or a drip irrigation system if a hosepipe ban is imposed.
For a free consultation on trees or any other planting/garden design you can contact me on 07783 276265, email [email protected] or message me via facebook.

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It’s wild flower time!

Late summer into autumn is the perfect time to sow wild flower seed. Whether it’s a wild flower lawn, a wild flower border or a meadow, native wild flowers will provide colour and attract wildlife all summer long.
For more information or to book a free wildlife garden design consultation call 07783 276265, email [email protected] or message me on Facebook.

Some new photos of a garden I designed and planted a year ago. The client loves the naturalistic style and seeing the many bees and butterflies that visit the flowers. The growth in just one year is quite impressive! The second lot of photos show the garden a year ago just after planting…

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“Show bee the money!” 🐝💵

The Buff-tailed bumblebee has made the shortlist to feature on the new banknotes – and you can help make it happen!

One of the UK’s most common bumblebees, this iconic insect would serve as a symbol for all 24 of our bumblebee species and the many other pollinators we rely on.

Here’s why we should celebrate them on the new Bank of England notes:

🍅 Bumblebees are essential for pollinating many of our wildflowers and crops, including lots of fruits and vegetables. In the UK, they’re the only insects that can pollinate tomato plants.
💵 Buff-tailed bumblebee queens – the largest in the UK – can weigh up to 0.85g ... exactly the same as a £10 note!
🌾 It would cost roughly £1.8 billion to replace the role pollinators play in farming with hand pollination. Without bumblebees, many of the food we eat would become harder to grow and more expensive to buy.

Vote for the Buff-tailed bumblebee: https://ow.ly/FFiO50Z7bCW

Tree Focus…
May Tree (Hawthorn)
The May Tree is a British native tree that is steeped in history and folklore. Its name refers to the time of year it is usually in flower; pink buds open to white blossom in May followed by dark red berries in autumn. It is the precursor to the maypole; ribbons and decorations would have been hung from the branches on May Day (or Beltane) and people would have danced around the trunk. The tree was a pagan symbol of fertility and features in many stories of faeries where it was believed that the trees were entrances into the faery realm. The blossoms of the tree were often used to decorate the outside of houses - but never indoors - it was believed that to bring hawthorn blossoms into the house would invite illness and death! The leaves of the tree were often eaten and known as ‘bread and cheese’ although having never tried them myself I can’t say whether or not they taste like a cheese sandwich! The berries are used to make haw-jelly; a condiment similar to redcurrant jelly to serve with meat. In the countryside hawthorn is a common hedge plant, popular with livestock farmers for its thorny branches that when laid were the original barbed wire fence. In the garden they can make a handsome specimen tree with a compact shape (making them good for small gardens) and the blossom and berries providing not only interest but also food for pollinating insects and birds.

I am pleased to announce that I can now offer good sized (approximately 6ft) May Trees at just £30.00 each in collaboration with a local farmer who has lovingly grown them at home.

Other trees available as follows;
(Sizes approximate)
Sweet Chestnut (4ft) £30 each
Horse Chestnut (3ft-4ft) £25 each
Rowan (8-10ft) £30 each
Beech (4ft) £20 each
Copper Beech (4ft) £25 each
Hornbeam (4-6ft) £20 each
Oak (3-4ft) £20 each
Hawthorn (£4-6ft) £30 each
Lime (6ft) £30 each
Field Maple (8ft) £30 each
Norwegian Maple (8ft) £30 each
Hazel (4ft) £25 each
Silver Birch (6-10ft) £30 each

I can also quote on delivery and planting if required.

To order trees please contact me by email; [email protected]
Thank you.

Nice update from a customer.
In November I sowed a wild flower border (1st picture) and this is how it looks now!…