Harlow Council has received and planted a special tree as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) “Tree of Trees”.
There were 300 formal trees across the whole country - the first one was planted at the Royal Chelsea Hospital. Essex was allocated 12 trees one of which was presented to Harlow by Deputy Lieutenant of Essex, Jackie Sully,
These special trees presented in The Queen’s name, are gifted in a pot embossed with Her late Majesty’s cypher. The pot will be cared for by Harlow Museum.
These trees stand tall as a message of hope, regeneration and optimism to the nation and the world as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations which took place in June.
The tree, a Hazel was planted on Saturday 10 December in the Harlow Museum Walled Garden where it will be carefully looked after by the museum’s gardeners and garden volunteers.
Hazel is often coppiced, but when left to grow, trees can reach a height of 12m and live for up to 80 years (if coppiced, hazel can live for several hundred years). It has a smooth, grey-brown, bark, which peels with age, and bendy, hairy stems. Leaf buds are oval, blunt and hairy.
