Trees for the Queen (From Gazette)

Trees for the Queen

3:30pm Tuesday 7th February 2012 in Harwich & Manningtree By Lorraine Price

YOUNGSTERS joined the Queen in planting special trees to mark the diamond jubilee.

Children from Highfields Primary School in Lawford helped to plant more than 100 trees at the village’s Owls Flight Dell on Friday February 3.

Owned by Tendring Council, the Flight Dell, at the top of the Lawford Dale estate, is close to an existing community orchard.

Planted in a row, the trees including Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Field Maple and Ash, will form a new hedge for wildlife.

Oak trees were also planted to supplement the exisiting orchard.