[VEG]

Spent the last 2 days planting 420 pollinator friendly trees/hedging plants, my bees should have plenty of choice next year. I had these through the woodland trust, cheviot trees were the supplier they were very good quality. I have no connection with them.

[Fleecewife]

Did you include willows?  At this time of year the bumble bees use them as a very important food source.  There are so many varieties that you get a good succession 

What other trees did you get in your mix?

[spandit]

420 trees in 2 days is good going! What species did you plant?

[VEG]

Hazel, hawthorn, blackthorn, rowan, dog rose and crab apple. I swapped the willow for more haw+black thorn as there is all ready a lot of willow around.

[spandit]

I refused to pay for willow too as it's so easy to propagate and had a source of osier and grey willow.

Wish I'd planted more rowan now but have found quite a few I didn't know I had in the hedgerows. They offered me dog rose but I've always thought of it as a climbing hedgerow plant rather than a tree

[VEG]

yeah the dog rose is a climber but will add to the diversity of the hedge.

[spandit]

I'll gather some hips later this year from a dog rose I know of (and own, just not here!) and see if I can propagate it