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Trees act as natural filters, removing carbon from the atmosphere and providing us with cleaner air to breathe. As we continue to face an increasingly urgent need to reduce our timber imports and use home-produced timber instead, productive forests are becoming vitally important in the UK.

In reaching the UK’s tree planting commitments, it’s pivotal there is a sufficient supply of trees to plant, with science and Somatic Embryogenesis playing a key role.

These do’s and don’ts will help you to get your trees off to the best start, give them the best chance of survival and stay safe whilst doing so.

Danielle Stoddart is a Crop Technician at Maelor Forest Nurseries. Danielle provides the answers to questions around her background, day-to-day job role and some of the important projects in place at the commercial tree nursery in Wrexham.

Maelor Forest Nurseries is the largest commercial tree nursery in the UK – selling approximately 35 million trees a year from its 200 hectare site in Wrexham on the Welsh Borders and 70 hectare site based in Forres, Scotland.