Transplanting 75 native whips at Jubilee Gardens, #Lewes to fill spaces in the wildlife hedge we started in February 2021. Grown from seed at our #tree nursery - Hazel, Wayfaring Tree, Spindle, Dogwood, Willow, Rowan, and Oak. Thanks to @LewesDC for the planting permission!

At our #tree nursery this morning to dig up the remaining 75 hedge whips. They are a mix of Rowan, Wayfaring Tree, Dogwood, Hazel, Spindle, and Oak that have grown from locally sourced seeds that we sowed in October and November 2022. Going to boost a hedge in #Lewes soon!

Seven more #Swift boxes installed in #Lewes today with the help of the marvellous Dave Boddington! That makes 210 boxes that Lewes Swift Supporters have installed so far! Four of the boxes near existing colonies were installed free of charge using a grant from Chalk Cliff Trust.

Welcome back to the #Swifts parade - Saturday 9th May! Meeting at 10.30 at Linklater Pavilion and walking up to #Lewes Climate Hub for refreshments and activities. All welcome! Bring along a banner, Swift picture, or anything that celebrates Swifts and our Swift-friendly Town.

🌳 Five of us met the Green United team for this joint project of planting a wildlife hedge alongside the border of Ham Lane with Priory School, #Lewes. 🌳 30 people planted 775 #trees - a mix of Hornbeam, Hazel, Dogwood, Field Maple and Alder. ⭐ Fantastic bunch of people!

Peter Thurman returned to Malling Deanery Arboretum yesterday to continue our inventory of all the different #tree species and varieties in #Lewes. Some of the trees were in flower and, as you may see from his photographs, there were some real beauties!

We were honoured to be invited to the Railway Land, #Lewes, this morning to help the Meadow Minders to plant five large #trees - two Alders and three Hornbeams - on the water meadows. They were a fantastic group to work with and did a great job!

We visited the Liberty #Tree, (Tom Paine tree), on our procession with the Coat of Hopes from Bull House to #Lewes Climate Hub this afternoon. This Copper Beech was planted in 1989 to replace a tree lost in the 1987 storm. www.coatofhopes.uk

A lovely afternoon for our procession with the Coat of Hopes from Bull House to Lewes Climate Hub! Come and see the coat at the Hub before it sets off from St. Anne's Church on Sunday to begin a pilgrimage to the Isle of Wight. coatofhopes.uk

Beautifully illustrated #Swift books by Helen Lucy available from Lewes Climate Hub 32 High Street, £2.00 each. The Hub is open Wed - Sat from 11.00 to 3.00. All profits go towards keeping #Lewes a Swift-friendly Town!

Trimming the wildlife hedge that we planted at Jubilee Gardens, #Lewes, in 2021. It took a long time, so we will return another day to weed between the #trees!

Drop in at Southover Church Hall, St.James Street, on Saturday 24th January, 10.30 to 12.30. 🥞 Enjoy coffee and cake ⭐ Find out about the work of Friends of #Lewes to keep our town special! 🌳 Discover what makes Lewes an Arboretum Town - one of only two in the country! #Trees!

Lovely fungi, almost covering this dead #tree in Southover Grange gardens, #Lewes! Deadwood like this supports a healthy ecosystem by providing food, shelter and breeding sites for insects and invertebrates.

Eucalyptus #tree, on a lovely sunny morning at Convent Field, #Lewes.

#Lewes Town Council shared an article about the 57 #trees we planted at Convent Field in November to the Sussex Express - thank you!

We found 18 different #wildflowers on our #NewYearPlantHunt at the Railway Land #Lewes this morning! A lovely group of 30+ people!

Welcoming The Coat of Hopes back to #Lewes! #ClimateAction #Hope

Dainty Alder cones, Alder catkins, and "Pussy Willow" just coming out - on the #trees in the sunshine at the Railway Land, #Lewes.

The pomegranates are popping on the #tree in Grange Road, #Lewes!

Beautiful reddish bark on this Strawberry #Tree, (Arbutus unedo), in South Way, #Lewes, and some of the white bell-like flowers too!

Thank you to Lewes Town Council for their grant funding and for highlighting our November #tree planting at Convent Field, #Lewes, on their website! lewes-tc.gov.uk/2025/12/commun…

What has our team achieved in 2025? 🌳Planted 63 #trees 🌳Spent 306 hours weeding and mulching 🌳Led 5 guided tree walks 🌳 Held 5 events to promote the value of trees 🌳Recorded 195 species so far on our inventory of all the different trees species we can find in #Lewes!

Hazel catkins on a #tree in North Street, #Lewes

A perfect heart shape on the last remaining leaf on our Judas #Tree seedlings, #Lewes. When it is being blown by the wind it looks like a passing Brimstone butterfly.

A day in the rain - to plant Black Poplars at Laughton Greenwood, near #Lewes, in the morning and a Rowan #tree near Laughton Church in the afternoon.

What a beautiful day we had to plant the last batch of 57 #trees around Convent Field, #Lewes, this morning - four Crataegus x prunifolia Splendens, (Cockspurthorn), six Malus Evereste, (Crab Apple), and one Quercus ilex, (Holm Oak). Great work everyone!

Fantastic attendance of 1,500 people at #Lewes STEM Festival today! Here are just a few of the pendants to celebrate wildlife in #trees, chosen from those made by over a 100 young artists who came to our stall. Congratulations to the STEM team on a very well-organised event!

16 more #trees planted around Convent Field, #Lewes, by our team today! They are 8 Sorbus thuringiaca Fastigiata, (Hybrid Whitebeam), and 8 Prunus padus, (Bird Cherry). We planted 30 trees there last Sunday and will be back next weekend to plant 11 more.

We planted 30 #trees around the perimeter of Convent Field today! Later in the month we have 26 more to plant, thanks to generous sponsorship and support from Lewes District Council, Lewes Town Council, @friendsoflewes.bsky.social, the Mosaic Project, Chalk Cliff Trust and #Lewes residents.

Today, members of #Lewes Urban Arboretum, #Trees Committee of Friends of Lewes, were invited to the wonderful grounds of Northease Manor School to help to plant 165 mixed native whips. Great fun, very well organised, and lovely homemade soup made by Marcus Taylor!

Some of the beautiful leaves we collected from under the #trees at Southover Grange, #Lewes - from the Indian Bean Tree, Liquidambar, Tulip tree, Ginkgo, Chestnut-leaved Oak, Judas tree, and Japanese Maple.

Bringing sunshine colours on a rainy day - the golden leaves of the Cappadocian Maple, (Acer cappadocicum 'Aureum'), in Malling Deanery Arboretum. So many lovely #trees in #Lewes!

Some of the dazzling autumn leaves we saw on our visit to Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes, yesterday to share information about the #trees with the owner. There were so many different colours and shapes!

On a little #tree in our # Lewes garden - Spindle leaves - Euonymus europaeus

Leaf fall on the seven Elm #trees - Ulmus New Horizon - on St. Anne's Hill, #Lewes.

Another beautiful Liquidambar! This one is at the end of Church Lane, #Lewes, and the carpet of leaves was a lovely reflection of the colours on the #tree.

Continuing our inventory of the #trees in #Lewes- this enormous tree at the front of St. Anne's Church has been identified by Peter Thurman as Phillyrea latifolia, (Green Olive Tree).

#Lewes Floods Event at the Town Hall today. We're collecting ideas for #tree planting in 2026!

On our #tree walk... A wonderful knockout scent hits you when you walk around to the rear of St. Anne's Church, #Lewes, at the moment - from this Viburnum farreri!

Almost 200 #tree species recorded so far in #Lewes.

We're all set up at the Town Hall - ready for the Floods Event on Saturday 1st November, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. - explaining how the #trees of #Lewes play an important part in flood prevention.

Another surprise addition to our #tree inventory! Tumbling gracefully over the wall of a garden in Rotten Row, #Lewes - Styphnolobium japonicum 'pendula', (Weeping Japanese Pagoda Tree).

Yesterday morning we had a lovely walk around #Lewes to map some more trees for our ongoing #tree inventory. With the expert guidance of Peter Thurman we recorded some real beauties, including this Red Oak, Quercus rubra, next to East Sussex College.

Wonderful pomegranates on this Pomegranate #Tree in Grange Road, #Lewes!

We've just unloaded some beautiful #trees from Barcham trees for planting in #Lewes next month. We look forward to showing you them properly when they are planted. Here are Quercus palustris, Malus Evereste, and Quercus robur.

Every year I look forward to seeing the fiery Autumn colours of this Ash #tree on Malling Recreation Ground, #Lewes.

There are some wonderful shiny berries on this Cockspurthorn #tree, (Crataegus persimilis prunifolia), that we planted at the edge of Nevill Green in November 2023. It was sponsored by #Lewes Footpaths Group in memory of John Vokins.

A stunning Ginkgo biloba #tree in the front garden of a House in Barons Down Road, #Lewes. The gentleman who lives there was just coming out to mow the lawn and he said that his mother grew it over 20 years ago and gave it to him when it was only a few inches tall!

Beautiful colours on this Liquidambar styraciflua Worplesdon #tree that we planted in Prince Edward's Road, #Lewes, in November 2021 - before the wind came!

We are very pleased to report that we have just received grant funding from Lewes Town Council! The money will be used to fund our next #tree planting projects in #Lewes in November. Thank you very much to LTC for their support of our Arboretum Town!