Walking towards the light: Dawn Walk for the Samaritans, 9.10.22
The Samaritans responding to the latest ONS data on suicide rates: "These latest figures are just more worrying evidence that not enough...
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Katie Scott
- Oct 2
- 1 min
Do you have a favourite?
Or a tree that is very special to you? On this website, Rothbury Trees, several people were kind enough to write about a tree which holds...
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Katie Scott
- Sep 22
- 1 min
Tree Trails and Tales
I am so proud to announce that the Rothbury Tree Trail is now live. After a year's work, it is up and available for all to download, and...
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Katie Scott
- Sep 6
- 2 min
Are you ready for - The Launch of the Rothbury Tree Trail?!
Collecting all the information, writing up the histories, choosing, then writing, the right stories, choosing the best voices, taking...
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Katie Scott
- Aug 23
- 1 min
What do Kathryn Tickell, Rod Clements, James Tait, Hannah Lamb...
John Homer, and Chrissie Buckley, and Rothbury Highland Pipe Band all have in common? ANSWER These are the magnificent musicians who have...
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Katie Scott
- Jul 29
- 2 min
In the jungle, the mighty jungle...
On Wednesday evening Rothbury Tree Wardens went to the verge along from Beggar's Rigg to replace the tree guards. We have a rota of folk...
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Katie Scott
- Jun 28
- 11 min
The Craa Trees - ASH, 'The Venus of the Woods'.
The remaining Craa Tree at Beggar’s Rigg Spring 2022 There were once three very special ash trees growing at Beggars Rigg. David Dippie...
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Katie Scott
- Jun 15
- 3 min
We need to talk about...
TREE GUARDS. A great many trees and hedges were planted, all over Rothbury, several years ago. Tree protection was put on them, but no...
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Katie Scott
- Jun 13
- 2 min
Guest Blog: Cragend Farm
Ten Years at Cragend Farm Tree Project 2011-2021. Planting Ten Trees of Ten varieties. Salix alba Caerulea (Cricket...
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Katie Scott
- Jun 3
- 3 min
How many days till Christmas?!
I caught up with our most ingenious, hard-working, and prolific of the Rothbury tree wardens, Alan Winlow, recently. Alan has long talked...
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Katie Scott
- Apr 17
- 13 min
What links this Rowan Tree to Rothbury Parish Council?
“Rothbury is a small market town set on the banks of the River Coquet in Northumberland, and although technically a town, everyone still...
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Katie Scott
- Apr 10
- 1 min
Young to old... Rothbury Tree Wardens are taking root...
Jen Homer with grand-daughter, Holly, Katie Scott, Glen Sanderson, Hazel Mayer The Tree Council's Tree Warden Scheme, begun over 30 years...
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Katie Scott
- Apr 3
- 1 min
Proud and excited for 4th of April!
On Monday 4th April, after many months of me hectoring NCC, a fabulous team from Northumberland County Council is coming to Rothbury to...
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Katie Scott
- Mar 19
- 2 min
Digging, planting, laughing, hoping.
Plant a Tree (Apologies to Lucy Larcom) They who plant a tree Plant a hope. They who plant a tree Plant a joy. They who plant a tree...
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Katie Scott
- Mar 18
- 1 min
Rothbury Tree Warden Launch Event
Tree Wardens have been clearing spaces to plant trees along this verge. It has been several days of very hard physical work. We have done...
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Katie Scott
- Mar 6
- 9 min
Rothbury's Armstrong Cottages
The gardens of the iconic Rothbury’s Armstrong Cottages are home to two spectacular WEEPING ASH TREES. Rothbury’s Armstrong Cottages...
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Katie Scott
- Feb 19
- 4 min
What happens to the damaged and destroyed trees? Devastating tree-felling storms in 2021/22.
Storm Arwen arrived full-on, on 26th November 2021. It created massive devastation to trees (see earlier blog)...
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Katie Scott
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Would you like to hear some GOOD NEWS? Well of course you would!
2021 and the beginning of 2022 have been pretty glum, eh? I don’t need to list the catalogue of horrors we have been dealing with. So,...
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Katie Scott
- Jan 27
- 4 min
A Few TREEmendous Books!
EDIT - thank you so much for all the recommendations. There must be a forest full of words written about our beloved friends! I have...
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Katie Scott
- Jan 18
- 1 min
Do you see what I see?
We had a superb walk along the Carriageway, and by the side of Primrose Woods yesterday. The weather was perfect, sunny, and cold, no...
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