Russian Rugby Team Take Part In Tui To Town Tree Planting Project

Mayor Alistair Sowman and Councillors John Legget and Peter Jerram plant one of the 600 trees, shrubs and grasses put in on the banks of the Taylor River last weekend in a large public tree planting project.

Fifteen birch trees, a species widely grown in Russian forests, were planted to commemorate the rugby players’ visit to Marlborough. They were planted along with 15 totara trees signifying the All Blacks.

Members of the Russian rugby team and about 150 people, including councillors and rugby supporters, turned out for the event, organised by Marlborough’s Landscape Group.

Chairman of the Landscape Group, Councillor Peter Jerram, welcomed everyone to the tree planting, part of the Tui to Town project aimed at re-establishing the native habitat of our indigenous birds and encouraging them down onto the Wairau Plain.