A legacy in green
It’s Tree-bilee Year. All over the country, estate and landowners, schools, cadet groups, girl guides and care homes are being urged to ‘plant a tree for the Jubilee’ and contribute to creating what’s being called The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) to commemorate her Platinum Jubilee in 2022, the first time a sovereign has ever reigned for 70 years. No one is more supportive of the project than her eldest son, HRH Prince Charles, patron of the QGC, who has through most of his lifetime been a green pioneer and campaigner, often against conventional public opinion.
When he launched the project by planting a verdun oak at Windsor Castle with his mother at the end of the tree-planting season in March 2021, ruddy, outdoor-faced and happy, he said of trees: “Quite simply we cannot live without them… Planting a tree is a statement of hope and faith in the future.”
The message resonates with James Saunders Watson of Rockingham Castle, Northamptonshire, who
