St Andrews Friends plant trees

'The great white cherry trees Tai Haku will grow alongside the already-planted multi-stemmed silver birches.'

Quakers in St Andrews have planted two ornamental trees in a local park as a living witness to the imperative to tackle climate injustice.

The great white cherry trees Tai Haku will grow alongside the already-planted multi-stemmed silver birches and enhance the labyrinth Friends created in cooperation with Fife Council eight years ago.

Barbara Davey, from St Andrews Meeting, told the Friend: ‘They will be especially valued, given the recent destruction wrought to the park by Storm Arwen, and will serve as a living witness to COP26 and the commitments which the gathering in Glasgow encouraged each of us to make.’

During the planting on 8 January, members of the Children’s Meeting said they hoped that ‘the trees would be big and strong’ and urged them to ‘grow well’. Barbara Davey said: ‘A Friend offered memories of working on an olive grove in Turkish Cyprus – in the Sufi tradition tree-planting is regarded as an act of charity, a gift to nature, feeding the birds and sustaining God’s creation.’

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