Wadswick Green

Corsham, England

Wadswick Green

Wadswick Green was a little different to the plantings that we often do at Protect Earth. Just a stones throw from an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty you’ll find Wadswick Green, a 20 year old planted woodland on the boundary of a rural retirement home. We were brought in due to some of the Ash plantation dying, and rather than replace them with more Ash, we restocked the woodland with a more varied biodiverse approach. Planting local, native species that are a little more resilient, we hope to have bolstered this ecosystem a little, and that in another 20 years time this woodland will be absolutely thriving.

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  • Restocking
  • 90% survival rate

The trees at Wadswick Green are doing really well, 500 replanted to replace dead Ash trees, and the survival rate is 90% excellent variety of tree species, predominantly Hornbeam, birch and oak trees. The trees planted under the canopy of other Oak trees are not doing so well.

Slow-growing Oaks in one area, 20% losses, field maple seems to be doing well, the bramble cover is not stopping the trees from emerging here, the buzzard overhead, lots of blackberries seem to be a great understory already there from previous woodland planting. No beat up necessary. Also, the wayfaring tree and the Birch present

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