A VOLUNTARY organisation is calling on residents to come along to their wildlife planting sessions in the coming week.

Andover Trees United has organised a community wildlife planting session to take place in Tuesday, October 24 and residents are invited to come along.

Through Harmony Woods, the group's new and evolving community woodland, they aim to teach care for the environment and provide opportunities for volunteering, learning, training, enjoyment and enhanced well-being.

It is their long-term aim to offer a space that teaches the importance of and inspires a love of the natural world, and that encourages community cohesion through action.

The session will take place at Hedge End Road Orchard, Andover.

Andover Trees United and all volunteers are looking after our natural environment and improving biodiversity, and ecology in our local community.

They have set out to achieve this by minimising water usage, watering trees with used water, and using only biodegradable, phosphate-free washing-up liquid.

They also carry out annual grass cuts to allow wildflowers to flourish.

Other ways inside the selective removal of aggressive and free-seeding plants such as thistles to reduce competition for newly sown wildflower seed and increase wildflower populations to improve local biodiversity.

They also build with locally-sourced timber from trees felled in nearby Harewood forest using traditional building methods significantly reduces the carbon footprint of the building process.