Trees glorious trees. People can’t get enough of them. They don’t want to take care of trees, they just want to plant more and more of them.
We have so many trees not being cared for by our local council that I was utterly amazed to see volunteer do-gooders planting saplings around the village green and surrounding common land when I was out walking the spaniels the other day.

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