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Growing trees

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Way back in 2002, we produced a booklet that proved very popular. It was created as part of a project in Northern Ireland that encouraged people to grow trees from seed.

A few years later and some of the trees grown then will be producing seeds of their own!

The techniques of growing trees are still the same, so we offer you the booklet to download and keep. Happy growing!

Download your free seed harvest handbook

Learn the basics of growing trees

  • People collecting rowan berries straight from the tree
    Collecting tree seed
  • Birch seed drying ready for storage
    Extracting tree seed
  • Germinating ash seeds after pre-treatment
    Pretreatment
  • Sowing acorns in drills
    Sowing your tree seeds
  • A young tree growing in a tree nursery
    Growing
  • People transplanting young trees in a nursery
    Transplanting
  • People planting trees
    Planting

Here's the 'recipes' for many of the UK's native and introduced trees and shrubs

  • Alder cones
    Alder
  • Ash seeds (keys)
    Ash
  • Aspen leaves
    Aspen
  • Bird cherry fruits
    Bird cherry
  • Blackthorn berries (sloes) on the plant
    Blackthorn
  • Crab apples on the tree
    Crab apple
  • Dog rose hips in autumn
    Dog Rose
  • Downy birch fruits drying
    Downy birch
  • Elder berries
    Elder
  • Goat willow flowers
    Goat willow
  • Gorse pods ripening on the plant
    Gorse
  • Willow seeds
    Grey willow
  • Guelder rose berries on the tree
    Guelder rose
  • Ripe hawthorn berries on the tree
    Hawthorn
  • Hazelnuts collected from the tree
    Hazel
  • Holly berries on a holly tree
    Holly
  • Juniper berries
    Juniper
  • Mature pedunculate oak acorns on the tree
    Pedunculate oak
  • Rowan berries on the tree
    Rowan
  • Scots pine needles on a young tree
    Scots pine
  • An acorn ready to fall from a sessile oak tree
    Sessile oak

  • Silver birch
  • Spindle fruits on the tree
    Spindle
  • Wild cherry fruits
    Wild cherry
  • Wych elm seeds
    Wych elm
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