With some fairly harsh weather and soil conditions, Durham is an unexpected place to find a thriving collection of rare and exotic tree species, which makes Houghall College Arboretum well worth a visit. PERHAPS because it is located on campus
AN orchard has been infested with "unprecedented" numbers of ermine moths. The cider business, based near Kingsbury Episcopi in Somerset, has 15,000 trees and says at least half are currently infected. Somerset Cider Brandy doesn't use pesticides
THE public has been invited to have their say on proposals for a vast new woodland at Beckwithshaw near Harrogate. Forestry England wants to plant thousands of trees at Haverah Park, which is close to another one of its woodlands at Stainburn Forest
TREE planting must be "ramped up" to get the UK back on track to meet climate targets, advisers have urged. The Climate Change Committee said woodland creation rates will need to "more than double" to get as close to the country's annual goal of
