Each Trees for Survival planting site is visited for 2 years after planting for facilitators to monitor plant growth. Typically the first year involves the plants adapting to life after being planted and outside the shadehouse, tolerating the extremes the weather may bring like flood and drought, competing for light from fast growing grass or weeds and surviving any grazing pests like rabbits and pukeko. Restoration plant species are hardy for a reason and we are often surprised and delighted by what they can survive! It is then in years 2, 3 and 4 of growth that we really see the plants take off and schools and landowners enjoy the positive impact of their work!
