Best place to plant oak trees?

Chauncey_freak

Hello all, a while back i wanted to plant some oak trees, Irish heritage & carbon footprint issues..

So i collected some acorns.

Half a year later i have 20 saplings, all doing well in their temporary pots in the garden, but the problem is i want to plant them in a place where they won't be cut down in 10 years to build a tesco.

I was thinking Wicklow - Blessington lakes area, which i'm beside, but a lot of the forests here are pine, ie. possibly grown to be cut down for furniture & what not.

Does anyone know of a protected area these little oak trees can have a long and full life?

luckat

Maybe ring up Enfo and ask? Or ask garden designers?

Are these Irish oaks or damn foreigners? The difference is that one (the Irish, I think - others may elucidate) don't hang their acorns from a stem, but directly from the branch.

I give my oak seedlings, grown from acorns found on walks in autumn, to friends in Wicklow, who would nevernevernever cut down a tree.

beolight

google guerilla gardening

Chauncey_freak

These acorns are from very old trees in Ucd - they aren't foreign, but they're still townies :P I'll give them to people who live rural, they'll mostly be in wicklow too.

PS guerrillagardening.org - fantastic blog!

beolight

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/apr/25/guerrilla.gardening

siochain

beolight wrote: »

google guerilla gardening

class site

beolight

just thinking would our version of guerilla gardening be the local tidy towns commitee?