Tree Musketeers

Another one to add to our collection! @GreenFlagUK @hackneycouncil

Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to [email protected] by 27 June. There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thanks.

Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to [email protected] There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.

We’re having our annual plant sale in the park on Sunday to raise money for the Tree Circle Cinema, the free outdoor community film showings in the circle of trees in South Millfields. Please do support us. @thecastlecinema @elevenfiftyfive @greenerhackney

Ecological music artist, Phoebe Coco, singing at the Tree Nursery Open Day yesterday. Absolutely beautiful. @UrbanTreeFest @greenerhackney

Amazing artwork on our lockup by landscape-graffiti painter Joe Webster at our Open Day yesterday @UrbanTreeFest @greenerhackney

Going to #HackneyMoves Festival on Saturday? Drop in to the Hackney Community Tree Nursery Open Day on the other side of the Hackney Marshes Centre. Discover a very special space. Part of the @UrbanTreeFest @mayorofhackney @SarahWoodberryD @greenerhackney

Join us on Saturday 17th May for the Hackney Community Tree Nursery Open Day. Enjoy tours, workshops, tea and cake-and a special live performance by Phoebe Coco, whose tree-inspired original songs celebrate nature, community spirit, and the magic of trees. @phoebecoco

We’re hiring. We’re looking for an administrator. Part-time, freelance. We’ve been volunteer-led for 25 years but we’re now doing so much more! Please circulate. @SaveLeaMarshes @greenerhackney @TCVtweets @MillfieldsUG @GardenOED @HackneyVoluntee

Celebrate Urban Tree Week with a visit to the Tree Nursery… tree tours, a graffiti artist creating a tree mural, tree songs, talks on trees and bees, arts & crafts… @UrbanTreeFest @greenerhackney

Brimstone butterflies at the tree nursery spiralling upwards led by the female… before tumbling down into the bushes to mate. Visit this magical space on our Open Day, Sat 17 May, 11-4.

Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major). Females coat their eggs in dust & sand before targeting them at solitary bee and wasp nests. Their larvae feed parasitically on the grubs. They are around March-June… learn about trees & bees come to the Tree Nursery: treemusketeers.org.uk

Slo-Mo video of honey bees leaving and returning to a hive at our community tree nursery. It seems they may not be as graceful as they look in real time. The nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. treemusketeers.org.uk

Thanks to Marlis, Sue, Jody and George for coming out on a glorious Sunday morning and watering all the trees we planted this last winter season. We’re happy to report all the trees attended to yesterday are bursting with the uplifting optimism that spring always brings with it.

Volunteers planting in the field bed Ulmus VADA (Wanoux) a hybrid cultivar elm which has resistance to Dutch elm disease. Interested in learning more about trees? Why not join a volunteering session at the Tree Nursery. Help plant and grow trees. treemusketeers.org.uk

Spotted a newt while clearing out the pond earlier this week. The Tree nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. treemusketeers.org.uk

Hackney Downs park planting with volunteers on 9 Mar. We planted 3 trees, a sorbus latifolia (broad-leaved whitebeam), a sorbus aucuparia (rowan) and a laburnum x watereri (laburnum) - adding to 7 which we planted back in Dec 24, so a total of 10 new trees this planting season.

Interested in learning more about trees? Why not join us for a volunteering session at the Tree Nursery. Tasks vary but can include watering, weeding, repotting, turning compost, maintaining tools, cleaning etc. Help us plant and grow trees. treemusketeers.org.uk

2 signs of Spring - Sphaerophoria rueppellii, a type of hoverfly, nourishing itself on early blossom nectar. Also the spidery yellow witch hazel (Hamamelis) blossom continuing its slow unfurling process before spring sets in properly. Join us at the Tree Nursery to learn more.