This practical Tree Story from An Gairdin Beo community garden is by Lions Club volunteer Tom Clowry on the potting of a sapling chestnut.
Tom’s words
Good morning all , we are here in an Gairdin Beo ,
having a little potting demonstration of trees.
Just to highlight this particular tree , this is a conker or a Chestnut I gathered in Clonaslee ,
a small farm I have up in the Slieve Blooms brought home about 10 years ago .
And all its brothers and sisters are probably about 20 or 30 feet tall .
I didn’t care for this , it has been stressed on several occasions.
But I managed to keep it alive and so I just brought it along here today
So we punched the holes in the pot , then we put some stones or material to help drainage
This tree needs to be potted at about this level ensuring that the tree is not planted below the existing root line ,
And that tree will just keep on growing and within 5 or 10 years we will have a marvelous Chestnut .
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Memory Palace of Tree Stories is a socio-ecological art practice which invites you to tell a story or share information about trees . It is a creative-led social enquiry of how we can live well for both personal and collective wellbeing. Your story can be any kind of tree story , a personal tree story, an ecological tree story , an environmental tree story, an historical tree story or even a botanical tree story. I do hope you can contribute a comment on how we can live better with the greater community of life.
The year 2023 we continue to gather your stories in the form of one minute videos and we are really looking forward to hearing your tree story . I can be contacted directly on this platform or on the contact page on this website.
Niamh Cunningham