It was a very well organised event with free tea and coffee plus cake and biscuits supplies, always a win win!! We were given gardening gloves and a Spade then shown how to plant the tree saplings. There were a large number of local neighbours and residents who attended the session, as there were hundreds of saplings to be planted. Once planted we covered the ground area with mulch to protect the trees . It was a very worthy cause, and within the next 20 years will combat the noise and pollution from the M11!!

Once everyone arrived, our lean leader led most of the group on a 5 minute high knee workout. A good warm-up for our tree planting activity.

Those of us who didn't have gloves with us picked some up from the nice people of Trees For Cities. Once equipped we dug holes for our saplings to be planted. We were advised that the roots need to be pointed downwards as the roots can be confused.

Once planted, we gathered mulch to be spread around the sapling. After the mulch is spread in a mound, we finished with a job well done.