{"id":150862,"date":"2025-11-20T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150862\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:54:19","slug":"tree-and-hedgerow-giveaway-in-lincolnshire-to-benefit-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150862\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree and hedgerow giveaway in Lincolnshire to benefit wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon EdwardsLincolnshire<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762856288_495_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2394cfa0-c561-11f0-88c6-23e769b55dc3.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"PA Media A colour photograph showing a large oak tree, taken from the ground and looking up the trunk\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>PA Media<\/p>\n<p>English oak trees can live more than 1,000 years and grow to 100ft (30m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Five thousand trees and planting packs to create about 16,000ft (5,000m) of hedgerow are being given away in Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It is part of a project to increase the amount of tree cover in the county which is below the national average, said Lincolnshire County Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Woodland trust and council have put together the packs and farmers, community groups and organisations are being encouraged to claim them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Woodland creation project officer Wally Grice said the plants were &#8220;free to anyone who&#8217;s in Lincolnshire and who has the land to put them to good use&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It is the second year that the council has given away plants, in partnership with the Woodland Trust, to mark Tree Week which this year runs from 22-30 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">One hundred tree packs and one hundred hedgerow packs are available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Each tree pack contains 50 trees and the hedgerow packs will have enough plants for 160ft (50m) of hedging, said Mr Grice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Planting in both sets of packs will be around 18 inches tall,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Oak and wild cherry trees are among the varieties included in the tree pack and the hedgerow plants include hazel and hawthorn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The council <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lincolnshire.gov.uk\/trees\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has a tree planting project<\/a> aimed at increasing the number of trees, tackling climate change and benefitting wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Lincolnshire has very low tree cover, one of the lowest in the country at 4%, when the average for the UK is 13%,&#8221; said Mr Grice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to raise the tree cover and put all the benefits that trees give into Lincolnshire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He said anyone including farmers, individuals and community groups would be able to come forward for a pack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Distribution will take place on 27 November at Bardney Dairies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharon EdwardsLincolnshire PA Media English oak trees can live more than 1,000 years and grow to 100ft (30m)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-150862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}