Hedge planting in Luton (and perhaps just a little bit of messing about in the playground)

On Monday 28th March, the Weekday Conservation Team were in Luton to plant a hedge. We picked up 950 hawthorn plants and were met by our client from Luton Borough Council who had some more different plants as well to create a mixed hedge, so we had plenty to do. Sam jumped straight to work - here he is planting one of the trees. It seems that others in the group were more distracted by the play equipment though... Below, Martin and John are concentrating hard on their noughts and crosses tournament - apparently it ended in a draw. While Duncan just enjoyed the rocking horse!

And as if all the playing about wasn't enough, we also enjoyed cake - here Hazel is trying to figure out whether a billhook is the right implement for slicing it...

Luckily, even with all the distractions, we managed to concentrate on the task in hand for long enough to get the whole length of the hedge planted up and had a good day despite the heavy digging in places. I think Ed's grin (below) says it all!