Abundance London Launches Tree Watering Campaign
Encouraging residents to care for trees on their streets
Young trees in Chiswick need help to get established in dry weather
May 9, 2025
A new campaign to encourage residents to water trees in their area has been launched by Abundance London.
The environmental charity which brings together volunteers to care for public spaces across Chiswick managed to get 85 volunteers to look after 100 trees during the hot dry summer of 2021.
Bow after a record dry March and a record hot April this year, it believes that new trees in the area will need help again.
It has launched the campaign in partnership with both Hounslow and Ealing Council tree officers.
Everyone including residents, businesses, schoolchildren is asked to check the list of new trees on its website at abundancelondon.com, select your nearest tree, and make a commitment to keep it alive by watering as per the instructions. Fill in the easy form to let Abundance London (and others) know you are on it. If you live outside the immediate Chiswick area you can of course still look after your tree.
To be a top tree waterer, you should be giving your tree a full watering can or bucket twice a week, from now until October, preferably in the evening or first thing in the morning, directed at the base of the tree.
This will ensure that new trees get a really good start and become healthy, happy mature trees for decades to come.
Abundance London says, “Over the past few years we have all begun to appreciate the value of our street trees. As the climate emergency begins to reveal itself in the increasing unpredictability of our weather it has become clear that one of the best things we can do is plant more trees - they cool overheated cities, they sequester carbon, they help insect and birdlife. “
Discover more about your tree variety here for Hounslow and here for Ealing (and you can also register your adoption with them).
This page is sponsored by West London Queer Project who support community initiatives in Chiswick.
