Tag: Tree Guardian Growing Hollingdean

Join us for the next Tree Guardians, Sunday 2nd February 2025

31st Jan 2025

Join our Tree Guardians for some fresh air, tree maintenance and a smile. Everyone is welcome! Meet us at 10 am at the Family Hub, Lynchet Close before we set off to an orchard.

Volunteer Tree Guardians at Dryads Community Orchard Hollingdean, 5th January 2025
Volunteer Tree Guardians at Dryads Community Orchard Hollingdean, 5th January 2025

Our Volunteer Tree Guardians at Dryads Community Orchard, 5th January 2025

We cleared long grass and spent wildflowers from Dryads Community Orchard off Golf Drive in readiness for the Wassail on 11 January 2024. Although it was a wet day we had a new volunteer join us and two Dryads residents came along as well. We also mulched the fruit trees.

Volunteer Tree Guardians at Dryads Community Orchard Hollingdean, 5th January 2025

There are nine trees here, see our Tree Map, 090 plum, 091, 092, 093 Apple, 094 Black Elder, 095, 097 Apple and 098 Hazel Hedge. It was extremely overgrown at the start but with many hands we made a great impression! Thumbs up to our gardening volunteers.

Volunteer Tree Guardians at Dryads Community Orchard Hollingdean, 5th January 2025
Volunteer Tree Guardians at Dryads Community Orchard Hollingdean, 5th January 2025

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Fruit Tree pruning lesson with Jenni at The Old Green Community Garden

17th Jan 2024
Fruit Tree pruning lesson with Jenni at The Old Green Community Garden, Tree Guardian volunteers, January 2024

Growing Hollingdean Volunteers free activity in January 2024

Jenni from the Permaculture Trust Partnership shared her knowledge how to prune the fruit trees with a small group of Tree Guardians. It was a very cold and dry Saturday morning on the 13th January. Lots of laughter and banter was had to help remember to all the techniques.

Polly supported pruning decisions and discussions around pruning practice as well as ladder safety use. We pruned two pear trees on The Old Green Community Garden, tidied, picked up litter and removed animal poo from the area. Some people say January is a month of no gardening!

Fruit Tree pruning lesson with Jenni at The Old Green Community Garden, Growing Hollingdean volunteers, January 2024
Fruit Tree pruning lesson with Jenni at The Old Green Community Garden, Growing Hollingdean volunteers, January 2024
Fruit Tree pruning lesson with Jenni at The Old Green Community Garden, Growing Hollingdean volunteers, January 2024
Fruit Tree pruning lesson with Jenni at The Old Green Community Garden, Growing Hollingdean volunteers, January 2024

Come and join us for our next tree guardian volunteer session. Email us through our contact page here to let us know your coming.

For all the latest news on Growing Hollingdean free events and volunteering please sign up here or in the box below. Thank you to all the Growing Hollingdean volunteers who made this possible.