Tree and Hedging Newsletter 2025
Please find below the Newsletter from September 2025 that is available for download.
Tree and Hedging Group Committee
The members of the Tree and Hedging Group Committee are UK growers and suppliers of field and container-grown tree and hedging plants. This group committee plays a key role in the growing and distribution of trees for large-scale forestry projects, landscaping schemes and for sale in garden centres across the UK. With representatives from around 35 businesses, from across the UK
The Tree and Hedging Group Committee holds an annual conference and evening meal where members share their news and views on opportunities and challenges facing the sector. Here they discuss sector needs and what the HTA is doing, and can look to do, to support Tree and Hedging Group Committee members. Our annual conference is usually followed by a tour around a member’s nursery where informal conversations around experiences are shared and industry insights are discussed.
The conference is an excellent way to network with individuals that share similar interests and to gain awareness of what other businesses are implementing to address sector issues. Our steering group meet at regular intervals throughout the year, with many members reporting updates from other memberships such as EFNA and the Confor Nursery Producers Group. These conversations inform the HTA’s lobbying activity and continue to be a main communication channel for the HTA and wider tree and hedging growers. Tree and Hedging Group members also receive an annual newsletter that covers a range of topics relating to the growing and planting of trees in the UK.
"It is becoming increasingly difficult to find people to do the laborious and repetitive tasks on nurseries, so working closely with robotics and technology engineers is vital to find solutions for our specific requirements such grading, planting, packing and non-chemical weed control."
Ed Holmes, Chair of the Tree and Hedging Steering Group, FutureGrow Expo October 2024
Chair: Ed Holmes, J & A Growers Ltd
Contact Details: [email protected]
Vice-chair: Ray Jenkins, RJ Trees and Hedging
Steering Group members:
Brian Fraser
Helen Richardson
Jamie Dewhurst
John Marsden
Simon Hawtin
Steven Green
Membership
- Alba Trees Ltd
- Aveland Trees Ltd
- Bernhard's (Rugby) Nurseries Ltd
- British Hardwood Tree Nursery Ltd
- Castle Howard Estate Ltd
- Cheviot Trees Ltd
- Chew Valley Trees Ltd
- Christie-Elite Nurseries Ltd
- Christies (Fochabers) Ltd
- Cutlers Wood Ltd
- David Austin Roses Ltd
- D. W. Frost (Wholesale Nurseries) Ltd
- Elveden Farms Ltd
- English Hedging
- E. W. Burrow Nursery Ltd
- Forestart Ltd
- Heathwood Nurseries Ltd
- Hillier Nurseries Ltd
- Hopes Grove Nurseries Ltd
- J. and A. Growers Ltd
- James Coles and Sons Nurseries Ltd
- J. A. Jones and Sons Ltd
- Johnsons of Whixley Ltd
- King and Co. - The Tree Nursery Ltd
- Maelor Forest Nurseries Ltd
- Oakover Nurseries Ltd
- Premier Plant Producers
- Provender Nurseries Ltd
- Readyhedge Ltd
- R. J. Trees and Hedging Ltd
- R. V. Roger Ltd
- The Grower Ltd
- Thorpe Trees Ltd
- Trees Please Ltd
- W. Crowder and Sons Ltd
- Wee Tree Wholesale Nurseries
- Wyevale Nurseries Ltd
Newsletters
Tree and Hedging Newsletter 2024
Please find below the Newsletter from September 2024 that is available for download.
Tree and Hedging Newsletter 2023
Please find below the Newsletter from October 2023 that is available for download.
Tree and Hedging Newsletter 2022
Please find below the Newsletter from September 2022 that is available for download.
Images from the 2025 Tree and Hedging Group AGM nursery visits to W Crowder and Sons Ltd
Images from the 2024 Tree and Hedging Group AGM nursery visit to RJ Trees and Hedging
