Your Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) have another one-hour session, that you can simply drop into without any commitment, to help make a positive difference to yourself and the local environment.

On Thursday (1.2.24) we will be meeting at Maghull’s Pimbley Playing Field (bordering Field Way and Bridge Road and the Leeds to Liverpool canal by Drapers bridge – check website events section) to undertake some simple but important maintenance work on a few of our previously planted tree whips.

We will be removing any competitive grass from inside the tree protecting spirals to maximise growth, and simply reinserting canes and spirals wherever needed. It is a small but important job and may be the last time we need to undertake any maintenance here, fingers crossed.

Two years on, the 2,500 trees (part of Maghull’s 15,000) we planted on this site are looking really healthy. They were planted along three sides of the football pitches, comprising of:

• Two tree enclosures (600 trees)
• A 186m hedge (960 trees comprising of Hawthorne, Hazel, silver birch, Rowen, and Common Oak tree whips).
• Under-planted and rewilded the original canal embankment with 900 leftover blackthorn, goose willow and Guelder Rose tree whips.

Equipment needed: It should be a sunny day and all you will need to bring are thick garden gloves.

Thank You for Your Kind Support Last Week:

Last Monday and Friday we maintained the hedge and one tree enclosure, leaving the canal tree enclosure to be maintained on Thursday with your help.

A huge thank you to Christine (R), John, Joan (first-time volunteer) and the Saxon Tree and Garden Maintenance Company (Mike, Tom, Luke and Sarah) who also offered their fantastic professional free support.

The local ‘Saxon’ Family Team were a real pleasure to meet and were incredibly friendly, warm, professional, knowledgeable, hard-working, interested and interesting. Sarah is a qualified horticulturist and her family Mike, Thomas and Luke – who qualified at one of the country’s most prestigious horticultural colleges (Myerscough) receiving distinctions.

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https://www.saxontrees.co.uk/

Pictured: Tom, Luke, Mike, Joan, Chris and John. Frank not pictured

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