Random Roadside Tree Planting

Phase II
There are only a few windy-bendy roads going across Dartmoor.  For long sections they cross over open moorland, and for long sections, the land is all partitioned into field systems, with drystone granite walls and banks.  Along these fenced off sections; a thick strip of ungrazed, sometimes Gorsey Grass aligns the roadsides.  It is here, where I come to plant today.


Phase I, was the planting of the odd random trees, in Gorsey or Brambly patches Along these roads, this often being the first reappearance of which ever species, in that area, since the Moors were cleared for intensive sheep farming, all those centuries ago.

With Phase I; I wanted to give the impression that a few trees had appeared naturally here and there, and in a few small random patches.


Phase One has been in operation between years two and five.  It is now year eleven and the original trees are now getting quite big.  So now its time to enter the second phase of thickening up these roadside clumps and adding a seemingly natural second generation of trees.

Car Lights
Up  here I can spot an oncoming vehicle miles before it gets to me.

There is no other light or noise.

I stash the trees and the spade and either hide in a ditch or behind a wall, or I pertend to be walking.