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
- Tree 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)
Looking for Trees for Your Planting Project?
We work with local growers who produce trees with a local provenance. This means these trees are better adapted to the local environment and will establish more quickly. The community tree nurseries also aim to grow all their trees from locally sourced seed. Follow the links below to find out more about each nursery and the trees they supply:
Community Tree Nurseries:
- Bolghen Community Tree Nursery - near St. Austell - broadleaf trees
- Emmaus Community Tree Nursery - near St. Austell - broadleaf trees
- Kehelland Trust - near Camborne - orchard trees
Commercial Nurseries (Plant Healthy registered):
- The Grower - near St. Agnes
- Arbor Farm - near St. Columb
- Tamar Trees - near Launceston
- Treseders - near St. Austell
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