by Milly Bell | Nov 21, 2025 | News
What is National Tree Week? Now in its 50th year, National Tree Week, from The Tree Council and partners, marks the traditional start of the winter tree planting season. At this time of year, young trees are dormant and so experience the least stress when being placed...
by Milly Bell | Nov 13, 2025 | News
This project relies on a multi-year experiment comparing how three different tree species (Silver birch, Ash and Oak) respond to specialised ‘speed breeding’ growth conditions, compared to young trees which are being grown continuously under ambient polytunnel...
by Milly Bell | Oct 14, 2025 | News
We recently said goodbye to Louise Gathercole (L) who was instrumental in the establishment of the CFP and its success so far throughout her role as CFP Lead. We want to wish Louise the very best in her new role as Executive Director for the British Society for...
by Milly Bell | Sep 29, 2025 | News
Britain’s Forest Future: Research Practice Exchange Calling all foresters, woodland managers, ecologists, farmers and those involved in growing and managing the UK’s treescapes. Join us for Britain’s Forest Future: Research-Practice Exchange: 📍...
by Milly Bell | Sep 5, 2025 | News
We are pleased to announce the launch of our second e-learning module. Following on from our first module ‘Meet the threats’, which gave an overview of the risks and challenges that non-native pests and pathogens present to trees, this new module,...
by Milly Bell | Sep 3, 2025 | News
Researchers from Forest Research, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and collaborators presented their work on elms, predisposition to disease, how trees adapt, comparisons of diversity between planted and naturally colonised new woodlands, and genetic methods to improve...
