Cornwall's Coronation Tree planted in Saltash Gateway to Cornwall

Cornwall's Coronation Tree was planted on January 28 in a ceremony attended by Cornwalls' Lord Lieutenant in Saltash.

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00:00We are here today to plant the coronation tree. Now you may say it's been a bit of a while since

00:07the coronation but it's taken a bit of time to find the exact spot to plant it. I've just come

00:12from presenting a King's Award to voluntary service to a group called Operation Encompass

00:17which you may or may not have heard of but they're based in Torpoint and when I said I

00:21was coming on to salt ash to plant a tree they were very aggrieved. There we are.

00:30Because obviously you don't get on with Torpoint as well as you might do. Anyhow

00:34so the story behind the tree was that you may remember 2022 was the

00:40platinum jubilee of her late majesty the Queen and everyone was asked to plant a tree to

00:47commemorate that and there was an organization set up to do that and at the end of it

00:51they had plenty of money left over and then her late majesty obviously died and so that we had a

00:56new king, King Charles, and the suggestion was that everyone all the counties around England,

01:02Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland should plant a tree in memory of the coronation.

01:09So I thought that the best place to plant it would be at the entrance to Cornwall by as close

01:14to the bridge as possible and we originally were hoping to plant it on Carkeel roundabout

01:18but for various I'm told very good reasons we were not allowed to plant on Carkeel roundabout

01:23so thank you to the sign of salt ash for coming up with this excellent place

01:27to plant it and I hope that in 100 years time it will be as tall as that monkey puzzle behind there

01:34and will still be thriving and I hope that you young people who are here will be able to come

01:40back in 50 or 60 years time and say I remember that tree was just a little one and now look at

01:45it massive one shading out all the light from these houses and I've also been wanting to chop

01:49it down but there we are. Right okay I've got a plaque here which comes with it but I think

01:55we're now going to go through the process of planting it. Over to you sir.

01:59Looks to me like someone's planted it already.

02:11It's a bit windy.

02:29It had to be home planted because of the wind.

02:39Lots of lovely worms in there.

02:47I might invite my cadet to have a go too. He does come from Port Chalkworth.

02:57He does come from Port Chalkworth.