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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to everyone who shared their trees from seed images! Take a look at our latest news piece to see a gallery filled with your photos 🌳

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Photo 1: Wild Fen
Photo 2: Paul Dubery
Photo 3: Lyndsay
Photo 4: Oak Church Project

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 1d

Many CTNs produce broadleaf species of local provenance from seed collected within 20 miles of their nursery site. Inspired to get planting? There could be a Community Tree Nursery near you…

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CTNC Members | Fellowship of the Trees

On this page you can find a list of all the Community Tree Nurseries that are members of the CTNC and have given us permission to share their detials online.

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 1d

We’re delighted to unveil our new research report…

Did you know there are roughly 80 Community Tree Nurseries (CTN) across the UK producing approx. 250,000 trees a year?

They are largely run by volunteers and are usually 1 - 5 years old.

It’s often local people collecting local seed.

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 2d

Final Seed Gathering Season online talk! 🍂
Join us to celebrate the richness of autumn and its fruit, with special guests Lia Leendertz and Abbi Lawson.

Get your free ticket, www.tickettailor.com/events/thetr...

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 2d

Final Seed Gathering Season online talk! 🍂
Join us to celebrate the richness of autumn and its fruit, with special guests Lia Leendertz and Abbi Lawson.

Get your free ticket, www.tickettailor.com/events/thetr...

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 3d

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 3d

Here is a selection of tree nuts you might find when out and about, along with some top tips on how to identify them! 🌰🍂

Who's been out collecting seeds?

#SeedGatheringSeason

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 4d

🌰🐿️ It’s Red Squirrel Awareness Week! Did you know red squirrels depend on our native trees — like Scots pine, oak, and hazel — for food and shelter? 🌲🌿

By protecting and planting the right trees, we’re not just growing trees… we’re giving red squirrels a future. 💚

#RedSquirrelAwarenessWeek

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 5d

Jon, our Director of Trees, Science & Research, found this fungus in Herefordshire. It’s called riverine bolete and lives in partnership with poplars and willows. This was on the roots of the ancient black poplar, which won the prize in the Herefordshire Tree Wardens Tremendous Trees project.

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 6d

Clare, our Director of Programmes, Partnership & Comms, collected all these seeds on her way home from the train station this week! 💚

How many species can you find?

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 7d

With 30 beautifully crafted stories throughout history and from all around the world, this book entwines plant science with human history and technology and is a beautiful botanical gift to explore and treasure for readers 7-70 years.

Enter here > treecouncil.org.uk/competition/

Competition - The Tree Council

Win a copy of Jon Drori's The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of Discover the incredible things we make with plants with best-selling author and science communicator, Jonathan Drori. Did you know that…

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 7d

📢 We have another book giveaway for you!

Win a copy of Jon Drori’s The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of.

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 8d

You can grow trees too with a bit of knowledge, support and Andrew-Doubleday inspiration! If you need any help to get started – have a look at our tree growers guide. Now for less scrolling, more tree planting 🌳 🌳 treegrowersguide.org.uk

The Tree Grower's Guide

Trees are essential to human life Growing a tree from a seed is an easy, simple act and can help reconnect us to our shared natural world. These two guides have been produced by a team of experienced…

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 8d

“The tree cover on our planet is like the skin on a human body. If you lose a third of your skin, you’re finished. We’re now apparently down to 30% tree cover on the planet - so we’d better get planting.”

Andrew Doubleday, is one of hundreds of volunteers across the country growing tree from seed

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 9d

It’s a symbol of collective action and shared purpose — something that everyone, from local groups to national partners, can wear proudly.

Explore the new look and download the logo at nationaltreeweek.org.uk

A huge thank you to The Click for working with us to develop the new look.

National Tree Week - join the UK's largest tree celebration

National Tree Week 22 November - 30 November Banner image © A Great Alternative X Glasbren National Tree Week 2025 National Tree Week, brought to you by The Tree Council and partners, brings…

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 9d

The refreshed logo features a hand-drawn circle turning the ‘T’ into a tree — echoing the energy of the thousands who take part each year, and the moment a date is circled on the calendar.

National Tree Week - join the UK's largest tree celebration

National Tree Week 22 November - 30 November Banner image © A Great Alternative X Glasbren National Tree Week 2025 National Tree Week, brought to you by The Tree Council and partners, brings…

nationaltreeweek.org.uk

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 9d

Introducing the new look for National Tree Week 🌳

To mark 50 years of communities coming together to plant and protect trees, National Tree Week has a new identity — simple, bold, and full of meaning.

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 10d

Jays are busy making caches of acorns for winter. The scientific name of 'Garrulus glandarius' translates to ‘chattering acorn gatherer’ and this year, their jaws must ache with so much to gather and chatter about!

Don't forget to collect your own seeds this Seed Gathering Season! 🧡

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 10d

The long, warm summer has culminated in an abundance of oversized seeds, hedge berries and orchard fruit. 🌰

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 11d

📢 Join us for a free Seed Gathering Season masterclass! 🌰

Join Jon Stokes, The Tree Council's Director of Trees, Science & Research to explore the incredible diversity of tree seeds on your doorstep.

When: Wed 8 October
Time: 1 - 2pm
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/thetr...

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 13d

It is said that when the devil fell into hell on this day, he landed on a thorny patch of bramble and urinated on the blackberries, turning them sour and unfit to eat! #FolkloreThursday

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 13d

Now is the last chance to pick any late blackberries, because 29 September is Michaelmas Day and it is the end of the harvest and agricultural year.

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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 14d

📢 Book competition! 📚🍂

To celebrate the arrival of autumn and the start of a new tree year, we have five copies of award-winning gardener and food writer Lia Leendertz’s gorgeous month-by-month guide to the world around us.

Enter here > treecouncil.org.uk/sgs-competit...

#bookcompetition

The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 15d

🔬Our research suggests volunteers are growing 71 different tree species across nurseries: including rarer and vulnerable species like black poplar and wych elm.

You can read the full report here > treecouncil.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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