If you guessed somewhere between 20-50 then congratulations, you are not even close. Not even a little. We knew we had saplings being delivered, and not really any idea of what to expect and how they’d be delivered, but..

We didn’t expect them to be literal twigs! All those twigs in there are individual cuttings to be planted. When Trees on the Land reviewed our land etc, we figured they knew what they were doing when they said they’d send us 450 trees for free. We raised an eyebrow at the time, but now it makes sense!

Side note to praise the non-profit Trees on the Land! Here’s a snippet from their site https://www.treesontheland.com/

Trees on the Land is a cross-border initiative working to establish young native trees across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Our vision is to establish tree cover and woodland in rural and urban areas that will grow for many years and provide valuable resources, beneficial ecosystem services and a lasting legacy for future generations.

We plant small woodlands, orchards, hedgerows, shelter belts, coppice, wood-pasture, agroforestry, individual trees, rows and avenues of trees, landscape and amenity trees, reforestation sites and larger woodlands. We have planted more than a million trees at several thousand sites since 2013.

Love it. The timing is a bit shite though. I really wanted to finish some more stuff in the house before we do anything with the land but hey ho, the earlier these are poked into the ground (I’m sorry, “planted”) then the earlier we’ll have hedges and stuff.