Planting
Approximately 85% of the trees planted are native broadleaf species with some of the most commonly planted species are: English oak, ash, poplar, Corsican and Scots pine.
The transformation of the landscape is beginning to take effect as the first tiny whips to be planted in the early 1990s are growing into substantial trees.
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Famous quotes containing the word planting:
“The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment’s sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)