Dunstable Downs Begins Planting Over 15,000 Trees - Living Magazines

Dunstable Downs Begins Planting Over 15,000 Trees - Living Magazines

An ambitious project at the National Trust’s Dunstable Downs is underway to plant 15,000 trees, creating 11.5 hectares (27 acres) of new wood pasture and woodland. Over the next two years an area equivalent to 27 football pitches will be planted with a variety of native species including oak, hornbeam, wild cherry, silver birch, small-leaved lime, hawthorn, hazel, willow, and crab apple. In the first phase of the project 500 trees will be plante…