Funding came from Whitefriars Housing, Santander Bank and Warwick Volunteers, an organisation connecting students and staff at the university with community volunteering projects, who all donated cash to buy the trees, including oaks, cherry, hazel,
field maple and Scots pine.
These include some obvious examples such as Acer campeste, the
field maple that buzzes for two weeks when it is in flower in spring, three different hollies that need the pollinators to help produce the berries that feed the birds in winter and two different eating apples that provide us with valuable fruits in autumn.
From the higher areas of the park there are extensive views up and down the River Tyne and the northern section of the park is a landscaped grass area with willow, cherry,
field maple and hawthorn trees.
Elder, hazel and
field maple make attractive fillers, and guelder rose, viburnum opulus or the wayfaring tree, viburnum lantana, will add white blossom and berries.
Consider planting some native shrubs and trees such as Acer campestre (
Field Maple), Crataegus monogyna (Hawthorn), Ilex aquifolium (English Holly), Malus prunifolia (Crab apple), Euonymus europaeus (Spindle), Viburnum opulus (Guelder rose) and the non-native Buddleja davidii 'Black Knight' (Butterfly bush).
The location is idyllic, say the agents, with lovely views over the Herefordshire landscape and surrounding woodlands with ash, oak, larch, hazel,
field maple, wild cherry, lime holly and much more.
Credit: Dan van den Toorn An old
field maple in Middlesbrough Credit: Wildflower Ark
Next is a British native, Acer campestre, our
Field Maple, often seen in hedgerows, which colours to a soft butter yellow.
Other good autumn choices are snake bark maples like acer davidii George Forrest, with its red-stalked leaves, and the native
field maple A.
davidii "George Forrest", with its red-stalked leaves, and the native
field maple A.
Plant mixed hedges such as hawthorn, yew and
field maple to attract wildlife, while berried shrubs will be a magnet for birds.
field maple - shrubby Eurasian maple often used as a hedge