Landscape Committee - TrustNews August 1990
A feature of Winchester is the great number of beautiful trees. However, many of them were planted a long time ago, some are over mature and some have grown up neglected and unthinned.
The Cathedral authorities have faced up to the problem and, having had a detailed survey of their trees, are carrying out a phased felling and replacement and are planting young trees near old ones that eventually have to go.
The two recent severe storms have uprooted a large number of the town's trees and have made many people nervous of the larger older trees that are still standing. An example is the once beautiful cedar in the churchyard at Weeke. It lost some boughs in the storms and had others removed, to make it safe, but it will need more boughs removed, further spoiling its appearance. It may be better to replace it with a new tree.
The City has planted a great many young trees in the parks and in St. James' Lane cemetery, but quite a number of them will undoubtedly die because of the very dry spring. If in their first season people living near-by would "adopt" a newly planted tree and give it water during dry spells, many more would become established.