Edward Leigh MP for Gainsborough visited our Snitterby nursery at the end of May 2018 and met with our Director, Andrew Henderson. Mr Leigh perused our stock, administration and despatch operations before discussing the finer points affecting a local business such as ours as we strive to achieve continued success towards our 30th year of trading.
The latest British Woodland Survey 2017 results have been welcomed by the Royal Forestry Society. The resulting report paints a clear and powerful picture of what is needed - and wished for - in the creation and improvement of British woodlands.
Trees thrive in quality treeshelters; the microclimate within the tube helps to promote accelerated growth, whilst protecting young trees from predators, herbicides and inhospitable environmental conditions. That's why we, as the UK's leading specialist supplier of bare root trees, shrubs, hedgerow plants and planting accessories, recommend and supply TUBEX treeshelters with our trees to the forestry sector.
With the Woodland Creation Grants application window looming this week (16 February 2018), there are still plenty of opportunities to gain vital funding for your tree planting and forestry projects.
Celebrating the world of trees and nature in hymns and praise, yesterday's (11 February 2018) BBC's Songs of Praise was filmed at Lincoln Cathedral and the Cathedral Copse. The copse was planted in the Autumn with oak saplings from British Hardwood Tree Nursery.
You can now (2 January 2018) submit an application for a Countryside Stewardship Woodland Creation Grant. To apply, submit your completed application and supporting documents to Natural England Technical Services by midnight on 16 February 2018.
Our British Hardwood Tree Nursery family took part - young and old - at yesterday's (Sunday 26 November 2017) Cathedral Planting at Ashing Lane Nature Reserve in Dunholme. It takes over 100 years for an oak tree to grow to the maturity needed to create timber for Lincoln Cathedral roof so we were more than happy to start this ball rolling, supporting the Nettleham Woodland Trust with the donation of oak saplings for the establishment of the Cathedral Copse.
Creating an appropriate setting reflective of its history, the establishment and continuing health of woodland planting at Grangewood Hall, Derbyshire owes its success to three elements. The three? A credit to its forestry management, the supply of healthy UK provenance young plants and the appropriate Tubex plant protection - the former provided by Cameron Forest and Garden and the latter by BHT.
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