With all the hot weather we've been having, the newly planted seedlings in Drayton Reserve need your help to survive. 

There are many desperate and dying seedlings in this unusually hot and dry weather and we need to give them water.  We need to regularly water the new seedlings to ensure their survival until their roots can get deeper next winter. We are hoping to get some water drums and plastic milk bottles set up to supplement the Adopt a Tree scheme, but in the meantime could you please continue to use your own water containers.

Want to be part of the Adopt a Tree scheme? 

Your whanau could adopt about 6 plants each, tie your own cotton ribbons on their stakes so you can easily find them, try to water them once a week, carefullypull out their stakes and pour water down the stake hole (this will get the water deeper and reduce waste to evaporation), replace the stakes.