These are some of the many species that we recently planted out as an educational woodland on Aberfeldy Golf Course, 15 each of 46 different species of native trees and shrubs, plus some of the more common non-natives and conifers. The idea is that people can find all our tree species in one spot, and learn how to identfy them.
After a very hot and dry early part of ths summer where the newly planted trees just sat there and did very little, the recent rain has encouraged a flush of fresh growth, and many of them are putting on height quite quickly at present. You can see the newly unfurled leaves in this picture.
This is a silver birch. You can tell that it is a healthy tree by the size and shine on the leaves.
This tree stake was not hammered in far enough and will have to be cut down a bit. The stake needs to be below the level of the tube to avoid damaging the tree in windy conditions, when the bark can get rubbed and scarred, creating weakness in the tree, or possibly even de-capitating it.
Small details........big consequences......
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