Claire Inglis, a nature reserve officer at Devon Wildlife Trust who is leading the Bowden Pillars planting project for the charity, said: “It’s been a winter in which we’ve battled storms and snow to plant more than 2,500 trees and begin the transformation of Bowden Pillars to a place which offers a home to nature and is vital resource for local communities.
Thousands of trees planted in Devon to start creation of Celtic rainforest More than 2,500 native trees have been planted to form a temperate rainforest in decades to come.
In decades to come, these trees – oak, rowan, alder, hazel, birch, willow and holly – will form a temperate rainforest, sometimes known as a Celtic or Atlantic rainforest.
More than 2,500 native trees have been planted so far this winter at Devon Wildlife Trust’s Bowden Pillars site, above the Dart valley and close to the green-minded market town of Totnes.
The first step towards creating a Celtic rainforest – a now extremely rare habitat that once covered large swathes of the west coast of Britain – has been completed in Devon.
