A small but willing group of volunteers from the Oxford Centre went into action at Middleleaze Paddock on the National Trust’s Coleshill Estate in early February to help plant some of the saplings for which members of the Centre had donated £680 over 2020–21. We were lucky that it was a dry and relatively mild day, and it was easy to dig holes in the Paddock into which to slide the roots of around 30 very small saplings of mixed varieties. A stake was then hammered in, and a protective sheath fastened around the sapling. We’ll look forward to visiting “our” trees in future years to inspect their growth in one small corner of the paddock which had already been planted with several hundred saplings.
