The path that runs down from Hampstead Lane onto the meadows to the east of Kenwood House runs through an area of coppiced hazel. These are young hazel trees that are cut virtually to the ground every five or six years so that each stump regenerates by pushing out another eight or ten branches. These …
Hampstead Heath Rangers
‘Our’ tree – part of the Queen’s Green Canopy….
Planted out with our own fair hands. It may not look much now but it is part of a 70th Jubilee project, the Queen’s Green Canopy, to plant a million trees across Britain in the queen’s name during the jubilee year. Since tree planting cannot happen during summer months, the project has extended its deadline …
More tree trouble….
But this time serious tree trouble….. The large oak which stood at the edge of Millfield Lane opposite the Stock Pond causeway. I saw it on my way back aross the heath this afternoon and stopped to talk to Ranger Paul who was trying to clear a gulley beneath its torn up roots to let …