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TWiG Dig (and Pull) At Wales Park

TWiG Dig (and Pull) At Wales Park

Members of the Belfast Garden Club TWiG Committee met this morning in Wales Park. Afterwards, many stayed behind to pull and dig out the invasive Norway maple seedlings that proliferate beneath the trees. This area of Wales Park has been targeted by TWiG, the City of Belfast, and a group of eager high school students and their teacher to become a patch forest. A patch forest is a wooded area, as small as 100 square feet, that is a complete biosphere, including understory or ground cover plants, perennials such as ferns, small trees and shrubs, and large shade trees, all…