Trees on New Walk
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Extract from the Friends of New Walk newsletter:
" The children of St George’s Primary, Fishergate Primary and York Steiner schools adopted three of the trees on The Walk by Hospital Fields. They recited a poem and took a certificate of adoption back to their schools.
We have asked the children of St Lawrence’s school to adopt the fourth tree. The children of the schools in Fishergate Ward will then have adopted all four trees and have a specific interest in The Walk.
Some of you will have seen that one of our mature chestnut trees has been severely pruned. It had shed a major limb and was deemed to be a hazard. It’s hard to ignore the irony that the pruning was taking place at the same time as the children were adopting the newly planted trees.
‘What about a strategy to protect our prize heritage trees?’ asks Andy D’Agorne. Friends will work on this and will be happy to work with the Councillors, Council Officers and others in trying to identify a ‘tree policy’ to ensure that our 100+ year old specimens are protected and that trees are felled only as a last resort."
My concern is that with climate change, the additional stresses of flooding, longer dry spells and stronger summer winds when the trees are in full leaf could leave us with few if any of these magnificent trees within the next ten years.
‘The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
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