Your guide to growing trees from seed
Grow trees using simple instructions. How to identify trees, collect seeds, sow and plant.
Follow our tree-growing ‘recipes’ to success.
Why should we grow trees?
Trees give us shade in summer, provide oxygen for us to breathe, absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, improve air quality, reduce soil erosion and providing significant economic benefits for communities, and more.
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Trees protect us
Trees provide shade and shelter, create cooler micro-climates, absorb rainfall and help stop soil erosion.
Trees provide for us
They provide food, fuel and timber for us. They improve air quality and reduce noise pollution, making places more pleasant to live in. They provide calm and relaxation away from daily stresses.
Climate
Trees offer potential solutions to the issues we face today. The mass planting of trees will help lock up carbon and reduce the effects of climate change.
Biodiversity
Trees (and the habitats they create) support a huge and diverse range of animals and plant species – our biodiversity. Without trees, they could be lost forever.
Tree growing basics
The fundamentals of growing trees from seed... in a nutshell
