Hainault beaten to Tree O'Clock world record

Volunteers celebrate planting over 20,000 trees in just one hour.

Northern Ireland has beaten Hainault to set a new Guinness World Record for the most trees planted in a single location in one hour.

Over 20,000 trees were planted in Hainault Forest

Final Results:

• Northern Ireland: 26,422 trees
• St Albans: 20,326
• Hainault Forest: 20,312

View our photo gallery of the day's events in Hainault Forest.

Congratulations to everyone on a great effort.

How the day unfolded on Twitter

@BBCTreeOClock 13.15: All three teams broke the old record though and each planted over 20,000 trees each! Well done record breakers! Hip hip hooray!

@BBCTreeOClock 13.06: So it's congratulations to the team at Gransha in Northern Ireland! With over 26,000 trees planted they are the new record holders! Very very well done!

@BBCTreeOClock 12.35: Planters returning their spades and rushing to join the queue for some well-earned grub!

@BBCTreeOClock 12.03: So who will take the record? Gransha in Derry, Heartwood in St Albans or the team here in Hainault? Let the counting begin!

Get planting for Tree O'Clock

@BBCTreeOClock 11.51: Ten minutes to go and I've just heard that the Northern Ireland team are on a level pegging with the team here! Keeeeeeeep planting!

@BBCTreeOClock 11.27: They were aiming for each person to plant a tree every 20 seconds! Speed gardening at it's best!

@BBCTreeOClock 11.24: Wow! Amazing news from Hainault! 20 mins in and they are well ahead of schedule in their record attempt! They've planted over 7000 already!

@WoodlandTrust 11.03: It's Tree O'Clock! Good luck everybody ;-)

@BBCTreeOClock 10.57: Not long to go now! Spades at the ready everyone! Good luck to everyone!

@BBCTreeOClock 09.52: Arrived at Hainault Forest Country Park ready to behold an attempt to break the world record for largest no. trees planted in 1 place in 1hr

Latest updates from Twitter:

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Twitter: WoodlandTrust

Fact fans: Six different trees were planted at Hainault: Rowan trees, Hawthorn trees, Hazel trees, Field Maple trees, Silver Birch trees and Cherry trees.

The Records

To celebrate National Tree Week, the BBC teamed up with Guinness World Records for Tree O'Clock, a nationwide challenge to break two world records:

World Record 1: To plant more than 20,000 trees in one location in one hour.

World Record 2: To plant more than 600,000 trees across the UK in one hour.

Hainault Forest

Tree O'Clock world record attempt

The spotlight was on Hainault Forest in the London Borough of Redbridge, north east London, where a team attempted to break the record of planting more than 20,000 trees in one location in just one hour.

HAINAULT FOREST COUNTRY PARK The park is located in north east London in the London Borough of Redbridge In 1851, almost 3,000 acres of woodland - that's around 100,000 trees - were destroyed and the land converted to farmland The remaining forest was saved and officially opened on Saturday 21st July 1906 as Hainault Forest Country Park The park includes a rare breeds farm, a lake popular with fishing, grasslands and ancient trees The forest is one of the most nationally important invertebrate sites The tree planting event took place between 11am-12noon on Saturday 5 December

The Woodland Trust and 250 enthusiastic Scouts and Cadets rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty. The stakes are high, because just 30 miles away in Heartwood Forest, St Albans, a rival record attempt, also run by the Woodland Trust, was taking place.

The night before the Hainault event brave volunteers camped out to prepare for the challenge ahead. On the day itself, teams of planters were cheered on by local people, friends, and family.

To find out more about the events visit the tree o'clock website or the Woodland Trust website.

Across the UK

For the second world record attempt, thousands of people tried to plant more than 600,000 trees within a single hour.

To count towards the world record every tree must have been planted between 11am and 12 noon on 5th December.

To find out about the local events, or how to plant in your own space visit the tree o'clock website.