Christmas Tree plantation in the wilderness | Woodlands.co.uk

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Select regions: Close South East England ilderness wood, in East Sussex, has its own Christmas tree plantation of about 5,000 trees. The enterprise sells about 500 trees each Northern England year for between £20 and £30 each so it's a helpful source of income for the business. Although the soil is difficult, the trees, once Cumbria established, do very well on a south-facing slope, and are protected against rabbits, deer and disease. At least flooding and drought are not a North Wales and the Welsh Marches West and South Wales and Herefordshire risk in these wet, sloping woodlands. East Anglia Devon Chris Yarrow, who set up the plantation, laments the state of the peaty soil complaining that it "has very little goodness in it and needs constant Cornwall and West Devon draining." He'd prefer a greensand soil but is pleased, at least, that it isn't on heavy clay: "the good growth you see here is the result of 30 year' Central England hard work" he explains. Southern Scotland and Northumberland Northern Scotland Lots of people with small woodlands set up an area where they Northern Ireland have a small personal Christmas tree plantation so their trees at Christmas are home-grown and have a known, chemicals-free provenance. Of One Planet Development course, for this you need an area of field or new woodland so that such mini Lakes and Rivers plantations do not damage areas of ancient woodland. Meadows and Fields Hutting

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At Wilderness Wood, people visit during November and pick out their own Christmas tree or they can come nearer to Christmas time and cut the Sign up! (Our email policy) tree themselves. In fact, Wilderness Wood has become a local magnet for a range of visitors: school trips with hands-on activities, older people shopping for local produce and people buying garden furniture made from sweet chestnut. They have even introduced candle-lit dinners where diners are entertained by speakers on woodland-related topics, and decorated by a home-grown Christmas tree during December.

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