New Trees in Moller Fountain Park
Written by Nelson Room Children

Yesterday we walked over to the park to meet up with Steven and Peter from Nelmac. We had been invited to replant the five magnolias in the park.
Last year we wrote to the Mayor of Nelson to ask him if he was going to plant any trees, to replace the 2 big trees the Nelmac men cut down after the big storm. We told him he should plant magnolias because we had one outside St.Vincent Room and it was beautiful in Springtime.
Mr Mayor wrote us a letter and said “Yes, you can plant them with the Nelmac workers”.
So we helped Rachel and Steve put the trees in the holes and add the fertiliser and the daffodil bulbs around the top. Steven dug the holes,cause that was real hard work.
BUT...in the Christmas holidays some vandals destroyed our magnolias..they just broke them off at the trunks, they didn’t care about our trees.
We were mad.....so we wrote to Mr Mayor again and said we wanted to plant the new trees. We had to wait until Nelmac had big enough trees to plant.
The trees are very big and they were very heavy. We used the spades and shovels to put the dirt around the trees. We even stuck the daffodils back around the trunks. Peter stomped the dirt in.
Mr Mayor sent a photographer down to take our photo and Colin Smith came to take our photos for the Nelson Mail. We were in the paper the next day.
Nathaniel is in the front and Shone,Louis,Rowan,Mattie,Imogen and Steven are helping push the dirt in the hole. Peter is hold ing the tree.
We wrote Nelmac to say thank you and sent them a photo.
We have promised to look out for our trees.
In spring we are putting dinosaurs around the daffodils and magnolias so the people can smile as they go to town.