Native trees are species naturally found in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Native British trees play a crucial role in the country's ecosystem, providing habitats for wildlife, improving air quality, and contributing to the overall biodiversity. Some of the most...
23 Feb 2024
We have been managing our forests here in the UK since well before the Bronze Age. Since then, we’ve gone through a roller coaster of cutting forests down and replanting them. That’s because timber is the plastic of the past...
12 Jan 2024
The tell-tale sign that the holiday season is over is – Christmas trees line the pavement. The British Christmas Tree Growers Association says that about 7 million Christmas trees (the range is 6 to 8 million) are sold and discarded...
5 Jan 2024
We recently started rewilding the 14 acres of land we have in Cumbria. We wanted though to maintain relationships with the local small sheep farming community and not displace the sheep from the land they have grazed for many years...
27 May 2022
People love ancient trees, there’s something almost hypnotic about them, the shapes, the patterns and the magic. So how old are our oldest trees? Here we talk about just 6 of our native species. OAK – this one’s got a...
28 Aug 2021
So here is something that you don’t hear everyday… the Lenox Project is setting out to build a replica of replica of the Lenox, a state-of-the-art naval ship from 1678 that was built in Deptford and was the first of...
18 Apr 2021
This article is NOT about HS2, that’s another story. Our railway lines are a national treasure built in the main by our ancestors. Today, Network Rail is the custodian of all our 10,000 miles of track. It is also the...
24 Jan 2021
Oak, it’s part of being British. It conjures up everything from Merlin, to Drakes warships, to dark forests, roof structures and strong front doors. How many times have you heard someone say “it’s by the old oak” when giving directions...
15 Nov 2020
When you look at the effect a world war 1 artillery barrage had on the landscape and compare it with an area of clear felling pictured in September 2020 its difficult to see the difference. Today it’s difficult to comprehend...
14 Sept 2020
Rosewood import to the UK was banned a few years ago, courtesy of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). The reason for this as usual being the continuing illegal logging to supply...
3 Aug 2020
In the foothills of the Himalayas (still at 4000 meters) I was honoured to be introduced to a Dragon who was building his family house overlooking part of the Phobjikha Valley.Phobjikha ValleyThey build in Blue Pine which grows locally and...
15 Jun 2020
We in the UK call it burr, our American cousins call it burl. As we are British lets go with burr. Burr wood can lead to some stunning grain patterns as you can see from a polished sample of some...
3 Mar 2020
*Based upon good quality, kiln dried, plain sawn timber per below.
