Jubilee tree planting drive launched

A Queen’s jubilee year project to plant six million trees across the UK began yesterday, with the first 60 planted.

The Princess Royal put the first in the ground for the Jubilee Woods Project organised by the Woodland Trust charity.

The project, which has the Queen’s support and the Princess Royal as patron, aims to plant the trees across the UK and involve millions of people to celebrate the Queen’s 2012 Diamond Jubilee.

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To mark the start, the Princess Royal also placed a personal letter of support in a specially-designed Jubilee Woods time capsule at Home Farm Wood at Bentworth in Hampshire.

The president of the Woodland Trust, TV personality Clive Anderson, said: “The recent news about the Forestry Commission sell off shows people in the UK have a real love for their trees and woods.

“This is an amazing opportunity for everyone in the country to take this a step further for the Queen’s Jubilee.”

The Woodland Trust is now looking for landowners, of all kinds, to plant a Diamond or Jubilee Wood on their own land.

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