Not Many Oaks Here

Very few Oaks on the North Devon's Coastal Uplands

The small wind ravaged specimen, in the picture above is one of very few Oaks to be found anywhere near my new home, which can be seen, through the fence posts,  below the Oak, in the picture above.

I am just adapting to life in a new area and I believe I have found something that needs doing here; the wide scale re-introduction of Oaks.

This peninsular is mainly a boggy plateau, mostly being between 150 and 200 metres above sea level.  The hedges are strictly Blackthorn, Hazel and Willow.  It is very bland.  It looks as though large areas of this 'green desert' would have been reclaimed from being moorland, perhaps after the second world war, when our country side lost most of its natural habitats.

It is clear that Oaks do well up here as every where that they present; they have spread, clearly demonstrated by all the baby trees sprouting from the hedges around them.  Birch are almost entirely absent, although I'm sure that they too would do well up here, if given the chance.

An easy but massive task is set up for me here.  A few acorns along each of these barren hedge rows, should do the trick.  Then let nature do the rest.  have to wait till next year though, then I must collect massive of acorns in October and november, from the right sorts of Oak trees and from woodland with in a smaller radius as is reasonably possible, from this proposed giant site.