News – rjtreesandhedging

An overview of poisonous hedging plants for livestock and horses

Special care needs to be taken when selecting hedging plants for horse paddocks because a surprising amount of hedging species are harmful to horses even if they are not harmful... Read more...

R J Trees and Hedging - thoughts on woodland creation

With grants at a new higher level (since January 2023), and the race to net zero requiring urgent action, more and more farmers and landowners are considering woodland creation and... Read more...

Growing bare root trees by hardwood cuttings

We have just established new stock beds where we have permanently planted several species which are best grown from hardwood cuttings rather than from seed. Currently we are growing White... Read more...

Benefits of traditional farm hedgerows

Approximately 70% of UK land is farming land and hedgerows are a particular feature of the British landscape where they act primarily to mark boundaries and for stock management. There... Read more...

Benefits of cell grown plants

Ray Jenkins has been growing bare root plants for almost four decades so you would be hard pressed to find anyone who’s more positive about the benefits of bare root... Read more...

Tree Seed Provenance (where the seed comes from)

RJ Trees and Hedging grows a wide range of tree species for forestry and productive woodlands and each year, Ray Jenkins carefully selects suitable provenances of seed in the appropriate... Read more...

A guide to the specifications of bare root plants

There are many names for what we grow – bare roots, whips, seedlings, field grown plants, transplants, undercuts – and in this article we explain what those mean and how... Read more...

A guide to amazing value bare root hedging plants

Bare root plants (sometimes called "field grown plants") are the cheapest, most environmentally friendly, and natural way of growing hedging plants and tree saplings which, in our book, makes them... Read more...

Benefits of hedgerow trees and how to plant into hedgerows

Historically, hedgerow trees offered farmers a source of income through the timber and hedgerow trees were carefully pruned and managed but when imports of cheaper timber became the norm and... Read more...

When (which months) can you plant bare root hedging?

Traditionally the season for planting bare root whips is November to March but in the last decade or so, that timeframe has been extended until April (and depending on the... Read more...

RJ Trees and Hedging delighted to be awarded Plant Healthy

We are delighted to have been awarded the horticultural industry plant biosecurity accredition - Plant Healthy. The following information is taken from the Plant Healthy website (www.planthealthy.org.uk). “It is recognised... Read more...

RJ Trees and Hedging delighted with UKISG accreditation

R J Trees and Hedging is delighted to announce that it is now accredited under the UKISG (UK and Ireland Sourced and Grown) plant biosecurity scheme which is a requirement... Read more...