Land planting of Sussex inspired trees

Richard and Rachel’s reserve, we called it. A triangle of land between the wood and the circle, dedicated to natural regneration, with a little help from us. It was at Cawdry I first saw the huge leaves of the Swamp Oak Quercus bicolor. We planted

• 3 Swamp Oak
• 1 Princess Tree
• 1 Quercus libani, the Lebanon oak,
• Potentially one surviving seed from USA: Magnolia acuminata, commonly called the cucumber tree
• 2 Red oak (𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑎)

Meanwhile the tractor began the layering of the forest garden with woodchip