St Joseph’s Aberdeen students had planted 110 trees last year but a night of vandalism left only eight trees alive.

The trees that had been planted last year included a lot of small tube stock, but this time around the trees were much larger.

The students spent about half a day replanting 90 Australian native trees that included River Red Gums that were propagated from the River Redgum at Taylor Park, as well as Silky Oaks, Illawarra Flame Trees, Red Cedars and Lilly Pillys.

The replanting was a Tidy Towns initiative and the trees were grown by the Aberdeen Tidy Towns committee who also provided a barbecue lunch for the students.

John Scriven has been heavily involved in the project and said the walkway will be a 2km loop around the golf course starting from Taylor Park then going down along side the river and back up to the park.

Eventually the path will be sealed for families to use.

“We have nowhere for kids to ride a bike in this town,” Mr Scriven said.

Upper Hunter Shire Council Business Development officer Sean Constable said the council has applied for a grant to have the pathway sealed and the council should find out if the application was successful in the next financial year.