Thank you to everyone who came to our Open day yesterday! It was great fun! Abdou Akarne has really brightened up the place with this Marshes inspired artwork. Thank you to all the musicians and our volunteers for putting it all together.👏 We can't for next year!! @urbantreefest #treenurseries

Still not too late to join 🌳 the guided tour in a beautiful tree nursery. Come see how we grow our native and unusual trees from seed, and have a tour of our Orchard, seedling polytunnel, apiary, forest garden, herb garden, wildlife pond and much more 🤗🍃

We're less than two weeks away from our annual Open Day. Join us for a fun packed day at the Hackney Community Tree Nursery! We have tours, talks, music and more through-out the day. See the poster for timings. #communitytreenurseries @loveourpark.bsky.social @urbantreefest.bsky.social

We would love to see everyone at our Open day on the 10th May. They'll be fun for everyone and lots of tree based activities, plus take home your own tree or plant grown in #Hackney. Running on the second day of the @urbantreefest.bsky.social

We're wrapping up the Winter planting season. Thank you to all the volunteers who took part! The song is the still unreleased ‘watermelon skies’ by BIN RICH, fellow tree musketeers & creatures of the concrete forest! Made from the samples of our very own Hackney parakeets & morning marsh afterglows.

Our Fruit Tree Grafting workshop is this Friday, sign up to reserve your place or we have another workshop next Sunday, but it's almost sold out. www.bit.ly/treemusketeersevents 🍏🍎 #Grafting #fruittrees #communitygardens #communitytreenurseries #londonbiodiversity #londontrees

Our tree nursery is open this Saturday and every last Saturday of the month. Come join us to prune, pot, mulch and all things tree care related. Spend a few hours being outside surrounded by trees, bees, butterflies and all. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983962013... youtu.be/OnVIfalOJcs

We love #plantingtrees and we love looking after our trees. On Sunday 22nd Feb we'll be in Millfields park mulching away to ensure our trees prosper. Come join us and spend a couple of hours in the fresh air with good company bit.ly/treemusketeersevents @loveourpark.bsky.social #mulch #treecare

Another amazing planting day on Gascoyne estate, thank you to the incredible beings who came through, always a delight to see you wonderful locals get involved with keeping our beloved borough so beautiful. Thank you for spending your Saturday with us, always an honour 💜🌳 #Londontrees #Plantatree

Join us next Saturday planting new trees in Springfield Park. Starting at 10am by the containers (///study.trees.tones), if you're late find us scattered around the park at a few different planting sites. @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social @nationallottery.bsky.social

We had a great time on Sunday, we felt as blessed as the trees to have so many people join us in our wassail. 🍎 Big thanks to the amazing performances by Morris folk choir & the Feorin band. Join us next year for our #Wassail, or our next event this year will be our Open day on the 10th May.

Thank you to everyone who came down to the nursery this year! 🎉🎉Christmas eve will be our last volunteering day of 2025 🌱 Seasonal wishes to all! ⛄🎁

Have you seen our new Documentary by the Good Side? The Hackney Citizen have published an article about it! They came along to our Tree planting on Hackney Downs and it was great to show them what the Tree Musketeers do www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/12/09/film-celebrate-tree-lovers-green/

We'll be holding a Wassail in our Orchard on the 4th January. All are welcome. The wonderful Annie Moreton will be guiding us through the traditions, with songs and music by @morrisfolkchoir.bsky.social and the Feorin band. #wassail #communityorchards #trees #Hackneytrees #communitytreenurseries

We had a great Partnership Launch with Hillier’s last week and we can't wait to share Tree growing & Tree caring knowledge with them. We had the perfect weather to plant some of HIllier's trial climate resistant trees on the marshes, the wonderful artist Stik came along to plant one of the trees.

At the Nursery we have been doing seed identification, separation & sorting. Including the Pride of India - Koelreuteria paniculata, Liquidambar - styraciflua & the Common Alder - Alnus glutinosa. Soaking in the bowl are Algerian oak - Quercus canariensis Photos by Pete Burke #nationaltreeweek

We're open next Saturday 10am-3pm, come down and volunteer, you can find us next to the Hackney Marshes Centre on Homerton Road, E9 5PF. Credit to Stezzo films for making this awesome video showing what it's like to volunteer at the nursery www.youtube.com/shorts/OnVIf... #volunteer #community

Join the Tree Musketeers for our Tree Planting in December! We'll be planting in Hackney Downs park on the 6th & 7th and in Millfields on the 13th. Sign up on our Eventbrite page: www.bit.ly/hackneytreemusketeers @loveourpark.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @hackneycouncil.bsky.social

Holy shrub! Tree Musketeers are blessed to have just won the National Lottery Community Fund! What a magical start to the season! All going towards our Growing Hackney project which will be running throughout the next 2 planting seasons, winter 2025-26 & 2026-27. #nationallottery

We're looking at pollinators in the Nursery - This is a male Common Blue butterfly - polyomatus Icarus. The hindwing of both sexes have a row of reddish/orange spots. 📷 photo credit: Pete Burke #hackneybiodiversity #butterfliesandmoths #communitygardens #pollinators

We are recruiting! Join us as a part-time engagement arboriculturalist. Manage our tree stock, agree on our planting plans, engage volunteers & the wider community. Deadline: Friday 26 September 2025 www.treemusketeers.org.uk/jobs #Greenjobs #arbjobs #arboriculturist #communityengagement #Hackney

Our AGM is on Saturday 27 September. Come along to the Tree Nursery 13.30 for a 14.00 start. Hear about what we’ve achieved in the last 12 months and our future plans. Followed by afternoon tea.

Our Apple Day was in October but the apples are falling now… so we’ve moved it forward three weeks

Save the Date! The Tree Circle Cinema is back in September. @greenerhackney.bsky.social @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social

Another one to add to our collection! @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @greenflagaward.bsky.social

We’re organising the Tree Circle Cinema, the free community film showings in South Millfields Park, on 6 Sept. We hope you’ll join us. We need to raise enough to cover the cost of putting on the event… please support us if you can: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to [email protected] by 27 June. There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.

Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to [email protected] There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.

Come along to our plant sale on Sunday next week (1 June) from 11.00. We’re raising money to fund the Tree Circle Cinema… the annual free community film screening held in the circle of trees in South Millfields. @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social

Ecological music artist, Phoebe Coco, singing at the tree nursery Open Day yesterday. Absolutely beautiful. @urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social

Amazing artwork on our lockup by landscape-graffiti painter Joe Webster at our Open Day yesterday @urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social

Going to the #HackneyMoves festival this Saturday? Pop in to the Tree Nursery Open Day on the other side of the Hackney Marshes Centre. It’s a very special place. And a very short walk. And part of the @urbantreefest.bsky.social. @greenerhackney.bsky.social

We’re hiring. We’re looking for an administrator. Part-time, freelance. We’ve been volunteer-led for 25 years but we’re now doing so much more! Please circulate. @greenerhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social

Job Alert! 🌿🐛🦋📢 Could you be @savebutterflies.bsky.social new Head of Ecology Services? Leading and building our role providing advice and technical services, this role puts you at the heart of our nature recovery work! Please apply or DM for a chat about it. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Come and celebrate Urban Tree Week at the tree nursery Open Day on Sat 17 May 11-16.00… or join us on Wednesday or Friday for tree tours of the nursery. @urbantreefest.bsky.social @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social

The elephant in the climate space is the cow - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Innovations in food technologies mean we can now produce the foods we love with a fraction of the environmental impact. But for farmers, producers & consumers to benefit, we need our government to act. shorturl.at/JMy71

Brimstone butterflies (Gonepteryx rhamni) overwinter 7 months then feed up on spring flowers. The female leads males an upward dance before tumbling down to mate. She usually lays on the 2 buckthorn (rhamnus) species, purging & alder, the caterpillars' food #insectThursday @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major). Females coat their eggs in dust & sand before flinging them at solitary bee & wasp nests with rapid twists of her body. The larvae feed parasitically on the grubs. They are around March-June…learn more about trees & bees at the Tree Nursery treemusketeers.org.uk

Out in Millfields Park with tree volunteers watering and mulching the newly planted woodland. The ground is very dry. Still, the whips are growing very well.

Slo-Mo video of honey bees leaving and returning to a hive at our community tree nursery. It seems they may not be as graceful as they look in real time. The nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Thanks to Marlis, Sue, Jody and George for coming out on a glorious Sunday morning and watering all the trees we planted this last winter season. We’re happy to report all the trees attended to yesterday are bursting with the uplifting optimism that spring always brings with it.

Volunteers planting in the field bed Ulmus VADA (Wanoux) a hybrid cultivar elm which has resistance to Dutch elm disease. Interested in learning more about trees? Why not join a volunteering session at the Tree Nursery. Help plant and grow trees. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Spotted a newt while clearing out the pond earlier this week. The Tree nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Hackney Downs park planting with volunteers on Sun 9 Mar. We planted 3 trees, a sorbus latifolia (broad-leaved whitebeam), a sorbus aucuparia (rowan) and a laburnum x watereri (laburnum) - adding to 7 which we planted back in Dec 24, so a total of 10 new trees this planting season.

Interested in learning more about trees? Why not join us for a volunteering session at the Tree Nursery. Tasks vary but can include watering, weeding, repotting, turning compost, maintaining tools, cleaning etc. Help us plant and grow trees. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

2 signs of Spring - Sphaerophoria rueppellii, a type of hoverfly nourishing itself on early blossom nectar. Also the spidery yellow witch hazel (Hamamelis) blossom continuing its slow unfurling process before spring sets in properly. Join us at the Tree Nursery to learn more.

Spring cleaning under the Airpots which sit on sleepers, in readiness for reactivating our wonderful extensive time-saving irrigation system. The nursery is open each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. All welcome. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Loading our electric vehicle at the community tree nursery with trees, guards, and tools for another planting session at Millfields last Fri 28 Feb. The nursery is open each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. All welcome. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Did you know that we run volunteering sessions every week? We run them every Wednesday, Friday and the last Saturday of the month. Volunteer sessions start at 10am. So why not head on down and join us. For more information, please visit www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Want to get out in the fresh air and spend some time in a green space? Why not help us plant trees in Hackney. All welcome. No experience necessary. Dress for the weather. Don’t forget to sign up so we know you’re coming! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/tree-muske...