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This month's Tree Quotation

“Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926),
shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was an Austrian poet and novelist

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 Moreton Hall Wildlife Group WOODLAND WAYS NEWS July 2025 Notice of Annual General Meeting

 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting will be held in the Conference Room at the Moreton Hall Pub, Lawson Place, Bury St Edmunds 10am – 10.30am on Sunday 13th July 2025 to transact the following business

Agenda 1. Minutes of the previous meeting To be agreed and matters arising 2. 3. 4. Reports and accounts To receive and consider the accounts for the years ended 31 March 2023 and 31 March 2024, and the reports of the charity trustees

Appointment of charity trustees To elect the trustees as listed below Caroline Byrne Jenny Green - Secretary Mike Hollins Moira Lawson - Treasurer Russell Moles Janet Scorer Nick Sibbett - Chair Jane Starling Any other business. Everyone Welcome.

Please note the meeting place – we will be outside if the weather is good, otherwise indoors. 
We need enough members to attend so that the meeting is quorate; if this is the only event you come
to, please do make the effort.  After the AGM we will go to Woodland Ways Pond and to Pond Covert
orchard for our work party - making hay whilst the sun shines and some tree maintenance work.

The trustees run Woodland Ways – arranging the work programme, keeping us safe and compliant
with charity law. If you have something to say, you are very welcome to come to a Trustees meeting
and tell us, even if you are not a trustee yourself.

Pond Covert orchard mistletoe project

Previously we reported that we had collected around 120 mistletoe berries from a large estate outside
Bury St Edmunds.  Apple trees, and one hawthorn, were inoculated with the seeds back in February
2025.  In June, we found that 26 had germinated into seedlings, with a disc-shaped ‘holdfast’ and the
tip of the seeding growing into the bark.  As the seedling penetrates into the apple tree’s sap system,
an external growth will form.  Not all 26 seedlings will survive, but we are very hopeful that some will
grow into adults and will be decent-sized plants by 2029.  A drawing showing the tree locations and
how many seedlings have survived was drawn by Mike Clare and is enclosed.

Home Covert Biodiversity Project

Our June work party will be to re-treat the fence around our storage container.  It was last done nearly
In June, we used a standard method of assessing the condition of Home Covert.  A checklist, based
on the Government’s statutory Biodiversity Net Gain metric, was used by members to identify the
wood’s strong points and weak points.  The completed checklist is attached.

We found that Home Covert was in moderate condition.  Two of the reasons it did not score more
highly was the presence of deer which are eating almost every tree or shrub leaf below 1m high, and
a dominance of sycamore in the high canopy. 

Trustees are now considering if we can improve
matters, by replacing sycamore with native tree species and fencing part of the wood to allow it to
recover from deer browsing.