Help and guidance for your project
The team have created a range of useful resources to help get projects off the ground:
- An example of a small scale woodland management plan
- Template for a woodland management plan
- Tree species suggestion list
- Local tree nurseries that supply UK sourced and grown trees
- UK nurseries that supply UK sourced and grown trees
- Information on Contaminated land
- Community Orchards guidance
- List of apple and fruit users for excess crops from orchard trees
- Parish canopy maps (by request)
- Trees in the Cornish landscape
- The importance of Cornish hedges (Cornwall AONB)
How to plant a tree
There are a number of important things to consider when you are planting a tree:
1. Utilities Checks
If you are planting trees it is essential to carry out the necessary utilities checks. We have outlined some guidance to assist you with this.
2. Choosing the Right Tree for the Right Place
- Recommended species for Cornwall
- UK native trees and shrubs in Cornwall
- Trees and shrubs | Cornwall Wildlife Trust
- Right Tree Right Place - (cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk)
3. Planting guidance
4. Tree Maintenance and Management
Newly planted trees need to be looked after for at least two to three years after planting so that they establish well. This includes watering and weeding around the tree in the spring and summer, and also checking tree guards and ties.
Guidance for Farmers and Landholders
- Assessing the health of your hedgerows advice
- Soilscapes soil types viewer - National Soil Resources Institute
- The new combined ELM (Environmental Land Management) Offer
- Trials of different tree protection for agroforestry (with goats!) - Dartington Trust
Tree and Woodland Organisations and Projects
- Woodland Trust website
- Ancient Tree Forum website
- Woodland Trust - Ancient Tree Inventory
- The Tree Council website
- Forest Research website - forestry and tree related research
- Woodmeet Cornwall - Facebook page
- Working Woodlands Cornwall – Creating a thriving woodland sector for Cornwall
- Tiny Forest (earthwatch.org.uk)
- Advice and Guidance on Trees - Cornwall Council
