Plymouth City Council is celebrating planting 4,000 trees since November 2023
A variety of different sized trees – from whips just a few feet tall, to fruit trees, and trees up to ten feet tall – have been planted.
Hundreds of people, young and old, have been involved through planting events and improved community and green spaces across the city.
The effort means that over 12,000 trees have been planted across more than 100 sites since 2020, when the Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest was first launched.
Highlights of the planting season were:
• 34 individual schemes delivered
• 340 standards planted
• 83 maiden fruit trees planted
• 3,758 whips planted
• 515m of new hedgerow planted
• 307 people, majority being children aged between three and 12 years old, actively engaged in tree planting and maintenance.
“We know how important planting more trees is for our climate, and we know that residents really value them as well. That’s why I am especially pleased that so many have been planted with the help of residents and community groups.”
Councillor Tom Briars-Delve, Cabinet Member for the Environment and Climate Change.