Overview

• Local reports say the viral trend has already produced hundreds of new trees across Saxony, with youth fire brigades, municipalities, banks and police showcasing their actions online.
• Participants follow a simple format in which they plant a tree and nominate three others to do the same within seven days.
• Youth brigades have driven the momentum on social media after the idea spread from Austria through Bavaria into Germany.
• Recent clips highlight showpiece plantings, including a ladder-truck "rescue" in Klingenthal and Niederfrohna’s mayor Jens Hinkelmann using an excavator to set a red maple.
• Environmental groups endorse the engagement but warn that saplings require years of watering and care, and they note urban planting is complicated by sealed surfaces and underground utilities.