It's EXCITING; 2 more sleeps to go before our Malahide TREE ACADEMY! We have been enjoying walking the site and making everything ready for Saturday at 9 a.m. We will announce on the day our NEWEST woodland site, clue is in the picture! Malahide will be really on the map this year, of course itContinue reading "Acceptance letters now going out; more info re our Tree Academy details."

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 Hourly forecast for Robswalls (Ireland) Even sunshine predicted for this morning! See you all at Paddy's Hill! Meteogram, next 48 hours Meteogram for Robswalls (Ireland) Next 48 hours The blue bars show max and min values for precipitation per hour. Today and tonight, 12 December 2018 Time Forecast Temp. Precip. Wind Wednesday 08:00 Fair. 7° 0 mm Light breeze, 3Continue reading "Thanks to all who came along yesterday, we are flying down the hill with the March of the Trees!"

I am copying the timetable and details below for our upcoming planting parties!   We are nearly all set; dig out your raincoats and wellies! We may not have quite as nice a blue sky as on last Sunday, pictured left seen from Portmarnock - we can guarantee lots of fresh air for our holly-planting.Continue reading "Gearing up for the Malahide Planting Parties!"

Such a lovely Autumn and early Winter we have had. The tree colours are remarkable. What it has meant for us is that the planting season is in fact delayed by several weeks. My lovely hazel tree at the front door is still covered in leaves. I thought some yellow plastic rubbish in my gardenContinue reading "The start of the planting season??? not so fast…."

It's so exciting! Link here; https://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/en/join-in/academy/20190126-dublin/details   The Trees March On! Sign up in your schools; details to follow!

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/common-non-native-trees/holm-oak/   Hi everybody. I've put my website onto my phone so it won't always look fancy! I discovered a really poignant thing yesterday from my neighbour, Michael.  As he told me, "A little fragment of history linking our little corner of the world to events 100 years ago." A former resident of our oldContinue reading "Holm oak (Quercus ilex) – British trees – Woodland Trust"