Planting Group Resources

Future Forests Network - News and chat

• Facebook page (Key project updates and news)
• Facebook group (Chat and updates)
• Twitter

Other Forums

• Chat about all things tree planting at - Tree Planting UK (Facebook group)
• UK Tree Growing Network (Facebook Group)

Practical

• Covid Guidlines for public events - The Tree Council
• How to plant a tree - Woodland Trust
• Aftercare - Woodland Trust
• How to plant a tree & aftercare - Forest Research
• Trees and shrubs: planting - Royal Horticultural Society
• Tree Planting & Aftercare handbook - TCV
• Tips on managing your new woodland - Small Woods

Finding land

• Finding available land - Woodland opportunity mapping - Climate Action
• Woodland opportunity map (WALES) - Welsh Government
• Contacting your Council - Template Letter - Chris Lake (Tree planting UK)
• ​Contacting your Council - Doubling of Tree Cover - Friends of the Earth

​Equipment, tools & trees

• Free trees - Woodland Trust
• Free trees - TCV
• Free Trees - Tree Council
• Free Trees - Save the oaks
• Buy trees - Woodland Trust
• Buy Trees - Alba Trees
• Compostable Tree Guards - Ezee Tree
• Tree guards - Tubex
• TOOLS for COMMUNITY GROUPS - Woodland Dwelling

Financial

• Grants available in the UK - Future Forests Network

Schools

• School focused initiatives and organisations (Details to come)
• Planting guides and planner activities - Tree Tools for Schools
• Free Trees - Orchards for schools - Tree Council
• Free Trees - Carbon Footprint

Growing tips

• Growing trees from seeds and cuttings - All you need to know - TCV
• Tree grower's handbook - TCV
• Orchard tree growers guides and advice - The Orchard Project
• Growing from seeds - Agroforestry Research
• Growing from seeds - Tree Council