Narrows Wood

 2023 Autumn Tree Planting Tree Planting Season is here! This October we are Planing to Plant 255 new trees at our Woodland. 180 Trees to improve our Trackside Hedgerows & to replace the Beech trees that failed to grow along our woodland edge. We will be planting 30 blackthorn, 20 dog rose, 30 crab apple, 30 goat willow, 30 rowan & 40 Hawthorn. This will hopefully help improve the biodiversity of our woodland, creating corridors for wildlife between the farmland and the woodland. As well as the new Hedgerow planting we have also planed to install new coppice planting within our woodland giving Us a crop of new Hazel coppice & Sweet Chestnut Coppice. Last year we experimented with the planting of 5 Sweet Chestnut trees and 3 have survived giving Us confidence in expanding our Experimental crop of Sweet Chestnut planting. This year we plan to plant another 15 within our woodland. Sweet Chestnut take a long time before they will produce nuts, around 25 years before they start

Tree Growth Project  The objective of this project is to collect valuable information and data about tree growth.  Tree growth is a key ecological parameter of forests strongly linked to a range of influencing factors.  By examining differences in tree growth between years, (including potential species-specific growth in response to events such as drought or frost),  these measurements can improve our understanding of the response of trees to changes to woodland management and climate change across the country.  The project is being done in partnership with  forestry commission research Dept & Sylva Foundation Lead scientist: Dr Matthew Wilkinson Forest Research Dept Stewardship Scientist John Williams Narrows Wood Owner Data collection via MyForest APP Sylva Foundation Six Oak trees have been fitted around Narrows wood with Special Girth Bands that will measure the growth of our Oak trees as Part of the wider Project By the Forestry Commission around the UK. 2024 February Update!