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Planted: 09 April 2022

White-Breasted Waterhen, Whitehouse Farm Park

Location: Derby

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Welcome to our Tiny Forest

This Severn Trent Tiny Forest has been created to give your community more access to green space and leave a lasting environmental legacy of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. This forest is one of 72 Tiny Forests to be planted as part of this project, each representing a Commonwealth country or nation. This Tiny Forest represents Maldives and is named after their national bird, the white-breasted waterhen.

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Planting Information

Planted
By:
Corporate Employees, Volunteer Group, Local Residents, Earthwatch, Landscape contractors
Planting
Date:
09 April 2022
Planted
Area:
205m2
Classroom
Area:
Featured
Pathways:
Species Planted in the Forest:Apple, crab(Malus sylvestris) | Aspen(Populus tremula) | Birch, downy(Betula pubescens) | Blackthorn(Prunus spinosa) | Dog Rose(Rosa canina) | Hawthorn(Crataegus monogyna) | Lime, small-leaved(Tilia cordata) | Oak, sessile(Quercus petraea) | Pear, common(Pyrus communis) | Rowan(Sorbus aucuparia) | Willow, common osier(Salix viminalis) | Willow, grey(Salix cinerea subsp. Oleifolia)

Tiny Forest Location:

  • Whitehouse Farm Park
  • Shelton Lock
  • Derby
  • DE24 9EZ
  • United Kingdom
  • GPS: 52.8815392834617,-1.45708103453227
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