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COMMUNITY ORCHARD PROJECT SOUTH EAST

Warlingham Forest Schoolers Orchard planting for Surrey County Council

25/3/2023

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COPSE planted eight apple trees at Warlingham Forest School, with over 40 local residents. Where trees were planted in areas of bramble scrub, 1m square of bramble soil was removed, with fresh, new topsoil put into these planting spaces. Surrey County Council will mow off brambles around the orchard space during spring-summer and the Forest School will weed beneath each tree to ensure brambles do not out-compete the fruit trees.

The heritage apple trees included several Pippin varieties, local Surrey trees including Braddick Nonpariel, Duchess’s Favourite, Claygate Pearmain, a Sussex Crawley Beauty and a Schoolmaster espalier along a former fence-line. Many thanks to all who came along to support.

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The Great Green Get Together and Haslemere School Fruit Planting

19/3/2023

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In March we could not attend the annual Surrey Biodiversity Conference, but did make Haslemere’s Great Green Get Together, with COPSE providing a talk, walk, planting an apple-tree and assisting Jane Devlin with her Smoothie Bike from the Chidd-Green team!

Earlier in the week we helped St. Bartholomew’s after school club, The Den, with a quince supplied and planted by Peter Clarke of Haslemere Rotary and an Schoolmaster espalier donated by RHS Wisley and planted by COPSE. We also planted the final Jubilee apple, an Arthur Turner within an orchard in the fantastic Woolmer Hill Garden, created by Sally Spaarkogel

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Warlingham Forest Schoolers Orchard planting for Surrey County Council

The Great Green Get Together and Haslemere School Fruit Planting

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