Growing Trees BIG update a year on, with 14 species
Channel: Jamax Adventures
Date: 2020-09-09

Hello tree friends!  I have a big update for you, giving an account of my tree growing trials this year and an exciting change of direction for me.  I will talk through the 14 tree species I have tried growing and put the species on the screen so you can skip to anything of particular interest, here is a list of species I cover with the times in the video:

• 1:00 Sweet chestnut
• 3:29 Silver birch
• 5:58  Lime
• 7:49  Oak
• 11:20  Aspen / poplar
• 12:55  Wych Elm
• 14:19  Alder
• 16:00  Hazel
• 19:07  Horse chestnut
• 21:38  Hornbeam
• 23:00  Beech
• 23:56  Sycamore
• 26:03  Ash (don't grow them!)
• 27:00  Giant redwood

I hope you enjoy and find this useful, any questions or comments are welcome.

When the Community Tree Nursery is up and running I will give an update, hopefully showing you thousands of trees I will provide to planting projects to meet the 30,000 hectares of planting a year the government are aiming for.

If you have land in Norfolk or Suffolk and would like to plant trees, you could quickly become my favourite person, get in touch.

Before you collect nuts and seeds to grow trees, please familiarise with the pests and diseases out there, you wouldn’t want cause more damage than good: https://www.observatree.org.uk/resources/download-and-read/guides/

Please only buy plants from UK nurseries, not unregulated routes such as ebay as you could be unwittingly importing unregulated plants and possibly foreign pests or diseases – Xylella fastidiosa and the emerald ash borer are two potential horrid threats on the horizon that are decimating trees in europe.  https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/garden-health/disease/i-Xylella-fastidiosa-i

Here is The Tree Council: https://treecouncil.org.uk/take-action/tree-wardens/

Here are other useful links:
TCV The Conservation Volunteers is a fantastic organisation about Community planting and has a wealth of advice and guides on how to grow trees from seed: https://www.tcv.org.uk/

For everything redwood refer to Ron’s Redwood World with very wise advice on growing from seed and a record of monument redwoods around the UK: www.redwoodworld.co.uk

Lime seed treatment guide: https://www.treeseedonline.com/store/p250/Small_Leaved_Lime_%28tilia_cordata%29.html

Comprehensive guide to RAISING TREES AND SHRUBS FROM SEED by Forestry Commission: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/documents/1449/fcpg018.pdf 

Super useful note on Handling and STORING ACORNS & CHESTNUTS AND SYCAMORE FRUITS by Forestry Commission: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/handling-and-storing-acorns-chestnuts-and-sycamore-fruits/