We have received a letter from Liz Bailey, the Community Engagement Officer at Parks and Environmental Services, Harrogate Borough Council asking for assistance.
Could you help? It is as follows:
We need your help!
There is a real shortage of tree stock to purchase across the UK and so we are starting to grow trees which will be ready to replant in our parks and open spaces in the next 3 to 5 years and beyond.
If you have any oak or sycamore trees in your garden, we’d love it if you could dig up any seedlings you might have (making sure they have a good root system and are placed in in a plant pot or wet newspaper) and then bring them to our Horticultural Nursery, Nursery Lane East, off Harlow Moor Road, HG2 0FH between 10am and 3pm Monday to Friday.
Our staff will then plant them into a recycled pot and grow them on. Once they are big enough they will be planted across the Harrogate district to enhance our woodland areas and help the environment by reducing carbon emissions.
We’d be pleased if you could share this with your residents/members of your group and even on your social media pages too!
Thank you in advance.
