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Trees Committee of Friends of Lewes - planting trees and looking after them - for us, for wildlife and to improve resilience to climate change. We are an accredited Arboretum Town!
Transplanting 75 native whips at Jubilee Gardens, #Lewes to fill spaces in the wildlife hedge we started in February 2021. Grown from seed at our #tree nursery - Hazel, Wayfaring Tree, Spindle, Dogwood, Willow, Rowan, and Oak. Thanks to @LewesDC for the planting permission!
20.02.2026 13:15 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
At our #tree nursery this morning to dig up the remaining 75 hedge whips. They are a mix of Rowan, Wayfaring Tree, Dogwood, Hazel, Spindle, and Oak that have grown from locally sourced seeds that we sowed in October and November 2022. Going to boost a hedge in #Lewes soon!
17.02.2026 16:59 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The finished hedge!
13.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Seven more #Swift boxes installed in #Lewes today with the help of the marvellous Dave Boddington! That makes 210 boxes that Lewes Swift Supporters have installed so far!
Four of the boxes near existing colonies were installed free of charge using a grant from Chalk Cliff Trust.
Welcome back to the #Swifts parade - Saturday 9th May! Meeting at 10.30 at Linklater Pavilion and walking up to #Lewes Climate Hub for refreshments and activities.
All welcome!
Bring along a banner, Swift picture, or anything that celebrates Swifts and our Swift-friendly Town.
The finished hedge!
08.02.2026 15:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌳 Five of us met the Green United team for this joint project of planting a wildlife hedge alongside the border of Ham Lane with Priory School, #Lewes.
🌳 30 people planted 775 #trees - a mix of Hornbeam, Hazel, Dogwood, Field Maple and Alder.
⭐ Fantastic bunch of people!
Peter Thurman returned to Malling Deanery Arboretum yesterday to continue our inventory of all the different #tree species and varieties in #Lewes. Some of the trees were in flower and, as you may see from his photographs, there were some real beauties!
03.02.2026 17:09 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We were honoured to be invited to the Railway Land, #Lewes, this morning to help the Meadow Minders to plant five large #trees - two Alders and three Hornbeams - on the water meadows. They were a fantastic group to work with and did a great job!
01.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We visited the Liberty #Tree, (Tom Paine tree), on our procession with the Coat of Hopes from Bull House to #Lewes Climate Hub this afternoon. This Copper Beech was planted in 1989 to replace a tree lost in the 1987 storm.
www.coatofhopes.uk
A lovely afternoon for our procession with the Coat of Hopes from Bull House to Lewes Climate Hub! Come and see the coat at the Hub before it sets off from St. Anne's Church on Sunday to begin a pilgrimage to the Isle of Wight.
coatofhopes.uk
Beautifully illustrated #Swift books by Helen Lucy available from Lewes Climate Hub 32 High Street, £2.00 each. The Hub is open Wed - Sat from 11.00 to 3.00. All profits go towards keeping #Lewes a Swift-friendly Town!
21.01.2026 15:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Trimming the wildlife hedge that we planted at Jubilee Gardens, #Lewes, in 2021. It took a long time, so we will return another day to weed between the #trees!
21.01.2026 13:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Drop in at Southover Church Hall, St.James Street, on Saturday 24th January, 10.30 to 12.30.
🥞 Enjoy coffee and cake
⭐ Find out about the work of Friends of #Lewes to keep our town special!
🌳 Discover what makes Lewes an Arboretum Town - one of only two in the country! #Trees!
Lovely fungi, almost covering this dead #tree in Southover Grange gardens, #Lewes!
Deadwood like this supports a healthy ecosystem by providing food, shelter and breeding sites for insects and invertebrates.
Eucalyptus #tree, on a lovely sunny morning at Convent Field, #Lewes.
14.01.2026 11:51 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#Lewes Town Council shared an article about the 57 #trees we planted at Convent Field in November to the Sussex Express - thank you!
09.01.2026 16:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We found 18 different #wildflowers on our #NewYearPlantHunt at the Railway Land #Lewes this morning!
A lovely group of 30+ people!
Welcoming The Coat of Hopes back to #Lewes!
#ClimateAction #Hope
Dainty Alder cones, Alder catkins, and "Pussy Willow" just coming out - on the #trees in the sunshine at the Railway Land, #Lewes.
03.01.2026 13:22 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The pomegranates are popping on the #tree in Grange Road, #Lewes!
25.12.2025 18:13 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Beautiful reddish bark on this Strawberry #Tree, (Arbutus unedo), in South Way, #Lewes, and some of the white bell-like flowers too!
19.12.2025 15:48 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you to Lewes Town Council for their grant funding and for highlighting our November #tree planting at Convent Field, #Lewes, on their website!
lewes-tc.gov.uk/2025/12/commun…
What has our team achieved in 2025?
🌳Planted 63 #trees
🌳Spent 306 hours weeding and mulching
🌳Led 5 guided tree walks
🌳 Held 5 events to promote the value of trees
🌳Recorded 195 species so far on our inventory of all the different trees species we can find in #Lewes!
Hazel catkins on a #tree in North Street, #Lewes
10.12.2025 13:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A perfect heart shape on the last remaining leaf on our Judas #Tree seedlings, #Lewes. When it is being blown by the wind it looks like a passing Brimstone butterfly.
09.12.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A day in the rain - to plant Black Poplars at Laughton Greenwood, near #Lewes, in the morning and a Rowan #tree near Laughton Church in the afternoon.
08.12.2025 09:04 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What a beautiful day we had to plant the last batch of 57 #trees around Convent Field, #Lewes, this morning - four Crataegus x prunifolia Splendens, (Cockspurthorn), six Malus Evereste, (Crab Apple), and one Quercus ilex, (Holm Oak). Great work everyone!
30.11.2025 13:39 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Fantastic attendance of 1,500 people at #Lewes STEM Festival today! Here are just a few of the pendants to celebrate wildlife in #trees, chosen from those made by over a 100 young artists who came to our stall.
Congratulations to the STEM team on a very well-organised event!
16 more #trees planted around Convent Field, #Lewes, by our team today! They are 8 Sorbus thuringiaca Fastigiata, (Hybrid Whitebeam), and 8 Prunus padus, (Bird Cherry). We planted 30 trees there last Sunday and will be back next weekend to plant 11 more.
23.11.2025 15:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
