{"id":762610,"date":"2026-09-07T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762610\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:40:09","slug":"drought-devastation-how-to-save-londons-parched-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762610\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought devastation: How to save London&#8217;s parched trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Georgie Power, senior coordinator at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treesforcities.org\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trees for Cities, external<\/a> (a charity that plants thousands of trees and looks after them) has said this summer had been unlike any other she has experienced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has also been a wildfire in the park that has killed many of the saplings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Last summer was bad. I think we had three heat waves, kind of back to back, but this summer has been a different level. \u2029<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just been relentless. No rain for over 50 days. Every single site has struggled, and our team has really been put under massive pressure because of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She and her team have been trying to water more trees more frequently, and giving them more water when they do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re giving them from 50 to 60 litres, which might seem small for one tree, but for hundreds of trees, that means much more work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve really worked hard to try and encourage volunteers to come in and help us with the mulching, because that&#8217;s something that really saves the tree&#8217;s lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgie Power, senior coordinator at Trees for Cities, external (a charity that plants thousands of trees and looks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}