National Tree Week is celebrated each year at the end of November leading into December as this is a perfect time to plant trees.

We returned to ‘our’ hedge in St Peter that is being managed by the charity Jersey Trees for Life on the 3rd December to help the team plant some more whips and saplings.

Each year as part of this Community Project we plant trees to recognise the funerals that we managed the year before.

This year the charity has brought in some slightly more mature whips that are stronger and will compliment those that were planted last year, and we have added a 3rd row that will in time produce a thick and healthy mixed hedge providing food and shelter to wildlife.

Senior Funeral Director Julian was joined by Group CEO Mark Reynolds and Operations Director William Church.

 

     

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Last week we returned to see how the hedgerow we planted has been getting on.

The hedge is being managed by the charity Jersey Trees for Life and the team recently undertook some maintenance on the bank.

Most whips are doing ok, but as with all hedge projects some have not survived and will need replacing in the autumn where bindweed and other perennials have become dominant and suppressed new growth.

As you will see from one of the photos, the adjoining field has had a cover crop over the summer following on from a crop of potatoes. Cover crops are invariably a mix of flowering plants that provide a food source for pollinators. They help with ground management and will in time be flailed and the ‘green manure’ incorporated, helping fertility and soil structure.

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For our second post, we thought that you’d like to know that all of the trees look to be waking up for spring.
The Hawthorns seem to be sprouting best with some of the oaks that Julian De la Cour planted sprouting well too.
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Maillards has joined forces with Jersey Trees for Life so that we can plant a tree as a mark of respect for every funeral we arrange each year going forward.

In November 2023 Jersey Trees for Life began planting our first-ever tree corridor to recognise each funeral that we had arranged in the previous year.