As part of the 47 Trees Project in honour of the late Sir Gerald Kaufmann MP, Friends of Birchfields Park and members of Schuster Road & Park Range Residents Association were out on Saturday planting native trees grown from local seed.
Five oaks, four rowans, a sweet chestnut, a horse chestnut and a decidedly
not native monkey puzzle were all planted on the day.
In all 14 trees towards the target have been planted.
MMU sustainability group work with the community and Friends of Platt Fields to plant 73 trees and shrubs.
Last month Creative Rusholme facilitated a tree planting day supported by the Department of Strategy, Enterprise & Sustainability at Manchester Metropolitan University and Friends of
