Trees are for life

NATIONAL Tree Week is an annual festival celebrating all positive aspects of trees in our lives and environment.

It is organised by the Tree Council of Ireland and this year it takes place from tomorrow to March 10. The theme is trees: our past, our present, our future.

During National Tree Week, as well as prompting people to plant more trees, the council is asking people to celebrate our remarkable heritage of trees and woodlands and to recognise the significance of trees and forests as a living link to our past, as an enjoyable, life-enhancing asset in the present, and as a wise investment in our future.