With the tree purchasing season underway the Woodland Trust is encouraging forest nurseries to register interest in a voluntary scheme launching in the New Year which assures the provenance of native trees.
The charity’s scheme aims to reduce the reliance on imported planting stock and the risk of importing pests and diseases.
18 nurseries have so far registered an interest in the Trust’s voluntary ‘UK Sourced and Grown Assurance Scheme’(UKSG) which guarantees that those trees grown by participating nurseries marked with the UKSG badge are raised from seed sourced only from the UK and grown on in the UK for their entire lifespan.
Woodland Trust: Nurseries encouraged to sign up to voluntary tree assurance scheme
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