Sponsor a new generation of trees in Greenwich Park
Help The Royal Parks charity plant 80 pollinator-friendly lime and elm trees in Greenwich Park.
Help restore Greenwich Park’s threatened tree avenues
We need your support to replant two historic tree avenues in Greenwich Park.
Running either side of the Queen’s Field in front of the Queen’s House, just below the Royal Observatory, the avenues have been an iconic part of the park since the 17th century but are sadly in decline. The Royal Parks charity is raising funds towards the restoration of both avenues to protect these much-loved features of the park for everyone to enjoy, now and in the future.
Your gift will help plant 80 new lime and elm trees, which will grow in the heart of Greenwich for generations.
Why we need your support
As a charity, we raise 80% of the income needed to care for the Royal Parks ourselves, some of which comes from kind people like you who visit, donate and support our events. We couldn’t support parks like Greenwich Park without you.
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Your donation could help purchase one of the new trees or cover the cost of a gator bag, which slowly releases water into the soil beneath each tree and helps them to grow strong roots.
As part of our Greenwich Park Revealed project, we are also enhancing 7,000 square metres of woodland areas across the wider park and planting around 2,000 native, diverse and wildlife-friendly trees and shrubs. If we are lucky enough to receive more donations that we need to restore and care for the tree avenues, we will spend any remaining funds on these projects to protect the park’s historic treescape.
The avenues were last replanted with Turkey oak trees in the 1970s, replacing the avenues of elms, which were lost due to Dutch Elm disease. Sadly, the Turkey oaks have not thrived. A number of trees have already died, and the others are in poor condition and in decline.
We are removing the declining Turkey oaks, as well as a small number of badly-damaged beech trees, between October and December 2023. The park will look barer than usual over the winter, but the semi-mature lime and elm trees will be planted between January and March 2024.
The new trees, which have been chosen for their wildlife-friendly characteristics, will join the avenues’ 99 remaining mature trees. The healthy new trees will help provide a valuable long-term habitat for bees, birds and the protected White-letter Hairstreak butterfly.
You can read more about the history of the park's trees, The Royal Parks’ important conservation work and how they play a vital role in the Greenwich Park Revealed project on the pages below.
Further reading
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Historic landscape restoration
The Royal Park’s park restoration project, Greenwich Park Revealed, will restore the park’s historic landscape and bring its unique history to life.
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The trees of Greenwich Park
There are more than 3,000 trees in Greenwich Park including ancient chestnuts, veteran oaks, majestic planes and evergreen cedars.
