Ornamental Tree Advice

How to Plant Bareroot Trees  This guide to planting trees is for those who like words. If you prefer pictures, you may find it helpful to watch video on how to plant a bareroot tree. All bare rooted trees (fruit or ornamental) need the same basic treatment before, during and after planting...

You may not subscribe to the principles of eating fish raw, alcohol warm or rice cold but the one thing Japanese that you will no doubt be enormously attached to are their wonderful flowering cherry trees - or sakura in Japanese - sadly this keyboard will not replicate the expressive Kanji charac...

Black Walnut - Juglans nigra - Tolerant Plants  Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) is allelopathic, which means they secrete substances poisonous to other plants. It is a great way of dealing with the competition, and can make "companion" planting problematic. Here is a list of plants that either...

Sizing of Standard Trees  When you buy a tree in a larger size, over about 2 metres, it is called a "standard". All the plants in our Ornamental Trees section are graded as standards. A standard tree isn't actually measured by its height. It is measured by the girth, in centimetres, of its ...

How to Plant Bare root plants Although this note is aimed mainly at planting hedging, all bare rooted plants whether they are seedlings, shrubs, soft fruit, fruit trees or large ornamental trees need the same basic treatment before, during and after planting. Follow these simple instructions an...

Buying Big Trees: Winter Delivery Seasons Explained  You can place your order for large sizes of tree now and we will deliver them barerooted in the winter season. The winter season is usually November - March, depending on the weather. We don't sell big trees in pots during summer. ...

You can find all the native British trees listed here and we grow and sell most of them. This list includes all the trees & big shrubs that are considered native. The definition of native trees: "True natives trees" are often defined as: Trees that colonised Britain during the time between t...

Planting Willow & Poplar for Biomass Wood Fuel  Details on many biomass related subjects can be found here. Biomass fuel simply means living or recently dead organic matter that is used to make energy. In this case, wood from fast growing plants is commonly used to heat homes and to po...

How to Plant a Tree Video This video shows you how to plant ornamental trees when they delivered in larger sizes, called standards. All standards are delivered bareroot in winter (Nov-March). You can read more about and buy most of the items you need here: Big Trees - Ornamental trees in st...

Dutch elm disease (DED) is a fungal attack which primarily affects members of the Ulmus family (Elm trees). The disease probably arose in the far East and was introduced to Europe in about 1910, arriving in the USA a few years later. European and American elms trees which had no natural resistanc...