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We would like to invite you to attend a Free Seminar at the Barcham Trees nursery on Wednesday 12th November .. .. ..
"MANAGING TREES USING CAVAT"
With guest speakers Mr. Andy Tipping from London Borough of Barnet and Mr. Jim Smith, Trees & Woodlands Framework Manager.
The day will be held at Barcham Trees Nursery starting at 10am.
50 places available on a first come, first served basis.
Breakfast and refreshments available upon arrival. Lunch included on the day. To book your place now email Jules
Over the next month or so, you will notice a few additions to our website detailing an increased range of trees that we will have available from September 2008, that are not currently in our 2007-09 Catalogue.
Download the list of species and details here.
Keep an eye on the website as photographs will be added to the new species as and when they become available to us.
If you would like any further details on these species, please feel free to contact the Sales team on 01353 720 748 or email sales.
Local Authority Tree Officers - Consultants or?. . . . .What is your role?
Seminar to be held on 15th and 16th July at the nursery at Barcham Trees
Following a highly successful seminar with last year, we are pleased to welcome Colin back to the nursery.
The seminar Colin will present asks questions about the role of the Local Authority Tree officer within the arboricultural industry. ‘Are Tree Officers consultants under another guise, with or without the recognition warranted’? What do you think? Can you offer personal experiences?
If you would like to take part in an interesting and thought provoking presentation, contact us now to reserve your place.
Pleasse contact jules@barchamtrees.co.uk or call 01353 720748
The event is free of charge including refreshments on arrival and buffet style lunch.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU SOON.
Please note this is not a two part seminar, each day will be a complete seminar. Places are limited to 50 seats per day.
The Seminars will be held at the Barcham Trees nursery; Ely, Cambridgeshire.
During the day delegates will:
• Learn about three great tree design myths
• Discover three great tree design secrets
• Be shown four inspirational tree design templates to use in their own planting schemes. It’s a day devoted to putting principles into practice. Delegates will be given a unique opportunity to use live plants to create a series of scaled treescapes. It’s a chance to see the ideas discussed in the morning taking shape on the ground during the afternoon.
All in all a very practical day – and that means places must be limited to 30 delegates.
The cost of the Workshop is £175.00 + Vat per delegate.
If you would like to attend, please complete the attached form and return to the appropriate address.
On the 6th and 7th May Barcham will be hosting "Green Compost in Arboriculture from Production to Mature Tree Care".
The seminar will be covering the following topics:
The possibilities for BSI PAS 100 Green Compost in arboriculture (Denise Ewbank, WRAP), Peat replacement in containerised tree production (Keith Sacre, Barcham Trees), The possibilities for composted waste streams for field grown trees (Marcus Bellett-Travers, Trees Project Limited/Nottingham Trent University), Ensuring tree quality in replacement growing media (Glynn Percival, Bartlett Tree Experts) and Improving establishment with green compost (Marcus Bellett-Travers, Trees Project Limited/Nottingham Trent University).
The Seminar is sponsored by Barcham Trees and is free to attend.
To register please email Jules or call 01353 720 748.
Download the full information here.
See the provisional guest speaker listing here and watch this space for dates and details of how to book yourself a spot!
As part of the Barcham seminar series, there will be a number of guest speakers visiting the nursery throughout 2008.
These guest speakers include; Marcus Bellet-Travers, Tony Kirkham, Colin Bashford, Clive Mayhew and Jeremy Barrell. We will post the details of dates, subjects of the seminars and how to book as soon as they become available.
So watch this space for further info and be the first to book yourself a spot!!
Barcham Online was launched on Valentines day 2008, providing for the first time a unique method for private individuals to purchase trees from Europes largest container tree nursery.
So why wait!..............Choose your trees now!
Dr Lonsdale is well known to you all as a consultant, author and educator, specialising in the biology, pathology and the mechanical integrity of trees. Working for the Forestry Commission for 26 years Dr Lonsdale researched tree diseases and decay, including the role of latent stress dependent fungi. His many publications include ‘Principles of Tree Hazard Assessment and Management ‘(1999). He has also published work on ancient trees and their conservation.
Dr Lonsdale has lectured and/or worked as an examiner for various organisations including Imperial College London, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Royal Forestry Society and the National Trust for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.At this seminar Dr Lonsdale will offer a personal view on a range of topical subjects surrounding climate change and tree management including veteran trees.
The same topics will be covered each day, so you only need to attend once.
The day will be FREE of CHARGE with breakfast and lunch included. 9.00am to 4.00pm. Only 50 places are available on each day and these will allocated on a first come first served basis.
Please contact Julie or Keith at Barcham Trees for further information:
julie@barchamtrees.co.uk or Tel: 01353 720 748
Barcham will be introducing an increased range of Seminars to be held at the nursery throughout 2008.
Due to the phenomenal demand and success of the seminars held at Barcham Trees throughout 2007, we will be introducing a number of further seminars for 2008.
Keep an eye on the website for updates on dates and availability of the seminars and feel free to contact us if you require any further information.
Tony Menai Davis, Managing Director, The Shire, London
All existing customers will automatically receive a copy of the new catalogue, so if you are an existing customer and havent received yours yet, do not dispair, it will be with you very soon!
If you would like to order a copy of the new catalogue please call the office on 01353 720 748 or email sales@barchamtrees.co.uk
So popular has a seminar to be held here in April proved that it is being repeated in May for those unable to gain a place at the first event. The seminar is entitled “Why do trees fall down?” and will be held at our Ely, Cambridgeshire, headquarters on Tuesday 8 May 2007. It is limited to 40 delegates.
Dr Marcus Bellett-Travers, senior lecturer in Landscape Management at Nottingham Trent University, will present findings from his HIRF Research Fellowship. The seminar offers a unique insight into how decay spreads within individual trees and whole populations, and will provide new and invaluable information to anyone involved in tree management.
Other topics include a statistical appraisal of residual wall ratios and the effects of storms on populations before, during and after they occur. Dr Bellett-Travers will also prevent new information on the spread and control of two of the most notorious pathogens Ustulina deusta and Meripilus giganteus.
Registration is from 9.30 onwards, lunch and a tour of our nursery is included, and the day concludes at 4pm. All enquiries concerning the seminar should be sent via e-mail to steve@trees-project.co.uk or to marcus@trees-project.co.uk
Dr Marcus Bellett-Travers, Senior Lecture in Landscape Management at Nottingham Trent University, will present findings from his HIRF Research Fellowship.
The Seminar offers a unique insight into how decay spreads within individual trees and wholw populations. It will provide new and invaluable information to anyone involved in tree management.
The workshop is based upon similar training and assessment courses that Claus has previously run in Singapore and is aimed at experienced practitioners who are already reasonably familiar with the concept and principles of visual tree assessment.
To ensure that all participants have the opportunity to discuss the subject trees directly with Claus and thus derive the greatest benefit from the training, numbers will be strictly limited to a maximum of sixteen delegates. The first day will consist of indoor lectures at the Field Head Hotel, Markfield, near Leicester introducing a new VTA field guide in the morning and covering tree engineering aspects in the afternoon. The following three days will be spent in the field, primarily in the historic Bradgate Deer Park and adjacent woodlands, and include practical exercises on symptom detection, defect confirmation and evaluation, failure analysis of broken or windthrown trees, and the selection and detailing of mechanical aids. Delegates will be subject to an oral examination during the final day and, upon satisfactory completion of this, will obtain a certificate confirming their status as a ‘VTA user with intensive elite training’. Delegates will also receive a suite of relevant books by Claus. Due to the limited number of delegates we can accommodate, the cost will be £1500 plus VAT per delegate (non-residential) but we are offering a 10% discount for early bookings. |
Training towards the Technician’s Certificate and the Professional Diploma has become the mainstay of the company, together with short courses ranging from tree surveys and inspections to an appreciation of the importance of bats. Treelife prides itself on being an organization which practices as well as preaches continuous professional development. David Dowson, the founder of Treelife, has set a standard of training which remains unrivalled. He was joined in 2004 by Andy Summerley, who shares the same educational values and beliefs. The continuing improvement and development of Arboriculture as both an industry and a profession is also a subject close to the heart of Barcham Trees. As suppliers, we are passionate about the survival of our trees. Since their well-being is founded in the knowledge and understanding of those charged with their care we are also committed to the improvement of that knowledge. With this in mind we have recently completed the construction of a new training facility at our Cambridgeshire nursery, which is being used by Treelife to provide its brand of day release courses, preparing candidates to gain their qualifications.The Technician’s Certificate has become established as the qualification of choice for those wishing to progress from ‘hands on’ tree maintenance towards a career as a Tree Officer or Supervisor, while the Professional Diploma remains the premier qualification for consultants and managers. Training towards both these qualifications will be offered by Treelife at Barcham Trees from September 2007 and with its central location in the eastern half of the country and easily accessible from central London it is hoped that candidates from all over will be able to benefit from this provision. Courses offered:R.F.S Professional Diploma (Prof dip) (level 6)AA Technician’s Certificate (Tech Cert) ( level 3)RFS Certificate ( level 2) For further details of the courses, please visit www.treelifetraining.co.uk or contact Andy Summerley on or contact Barcham Trees on. |
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Now in its 33rd year, the Event, held in parallel with the Historic Houses Association’s Annual General Meeting, is a comprehensive exhibition of products and services designed for use in the care, repair, restoration and conservation of historic buildings and their surrounding landscapes.
The event is open only to those who are either owners of historic buildings or to those who are involved in the maintenance or conservation of buildings and their landscapes. There were more than 1100 visitors to the 2005 Event. Included in the Event is a range of specialist seminars.
Barcham’s managing director Mike Glover said the Event presented the company with an excellent platform from which to speak to owners of some of the country’s most historic houses, parks and gardens. “We have already supplied trees to many well-known and prestigious estates, and will be pleased to discuss individual requirements with potential clients. We also encourage visits to our Cambridgeshire nursery, where owners are able to select their own specimens”.
Visitors to the Barcham stand will be able to collect their copy of our new DVD which gives an insight to our company and its work.
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The DVD will be available from Monday, 13 November 2006, so why not book your copy now?
It will be of particular interest to those of you who are not yet familiar with our trees and the Light Pots® in which we grow them to ensure that, once planted, they have the very best start in life. We hope that the DVD gives a potted version, if you will excuse the pun, of what we do and why we have grown to become the largest container tree nursery in Europe.
And once you have seen the DVD, we believe it will get you reaching for the phone to arrange a visit so that you can see for yourself the range and quality of trees we offer our customers.
Once again Barcham Trees will be on display at this year’s (2006) Bentley Weald WoodFair, which is being held at Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum, Halland, Lewes, East Sussex. We hope we shall have the opportunity of meeting our many customers and friends in the south east at what is always a great day out for all the family.
The WoodFair is being held on Friday 15, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September from 9.30am to 5.00pm each day. We will be represented on not one, but two of the trade stands on display at the WoodFair. Look out for us with R W Green of Lewes, a company which supplies and plants our trees, and with E W Burrow of Heathfield, a nursery which holds a good stock of Barcham trees for sale direct to the public. Come and see for yourself the quality of the trees we offer!
Bentley Weald Woodfair is the leading woodland, wood-use and woodcraft event in the south east. The event includes displays of hedgelaying, carpentry, wood sculpture and firewood production, and includes a woodland theatre, longbow archery and exhibits of fencing, flooring, furniture and wooden toys.
Bentley offers a range of attractions to support the event, including a vintage and classic car collection, miniature steam railway, historic house and beautiful gardens, a wildfowl reserve and an adventure playground. For more information, log on to www.bentley.org.uk
Following the hottest July in the UK since records began, we can confirm that a species native to China and Korea, and which only seldom flowers in Britain, is now (September 2006) in flower at our Cambridgeshire nursery.
Lagerstroemia indica, also known as the Crape Myrtle, was introduced to Kew Gardens in 1759 and is generally hardy in southern England if grown un a warm, sunny, sheltered situation. A beautiful small tree, Lagerstroemia has most attractively mottled grey and pink bark, while its small, dark green leaves turn flame red in autumn. Its pink or deep red flowers with their curiously crimped petals are, however, a rare treat in this country. A well documented specimen growing at Borde Hill in Sussex flowered freely in 1911 and again in 1933. It last flowered in the hot summer of 1959, as the flower buds it produced in 1969 failed to open. Barcham Trees’ Keith Sacre reports that many of the nursery’s Lagerstroemia indica Rosea and Lagerstroemia indica Violacea are both in flower. “Lagerstroemia is a tree which Barcham staff really love”, he says. “We have seen it in flower in Orlando, Florida,
and in Limoges in central France, but never in the UK until this year.
When you consider the Borde Hill tree flowered only three times in the
last century, and the last time being nearly 50 years ago, to have many
specimens flowering at the nursery is a real thrill for us”.
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We are delighted to have secured sole UK amenity rights to the Princeton Elm (Ulmus Americana “Princeton”), originally selected in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1920 and a tree with a proven outstanding tolerance of Dutch Elm Disease, which has claimed more than 20 million trees in Britain since the mid 1970s. In the USA, where it was once said a squirrel could travel from Kentucky to California solely on the canopies of elms, it is believed that more than 90 million trees have succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease.
The Princeton Elm was originally selected for its observed resistance to known maladies, its classic elm shape and its large leathery leaves. Despite attacks from Dutch Elm Disease, Princeton Elms planted along roads back in 1932 remain in perfect condition today. Research conducted into disease resistance in the 1990s showed the Princeton Elm to have a 96 per cent survival rate. No other variety of Dutch Elm Disease susceptible, large leaved elm can match this combination of disease tolerance, longevity aesthetic appeal. Princeton Elms have recently been planted along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of The White House and at Highgrove House, Gloucestershire, home of HRH The Prince of Wales. We already supplying trees to our customers, but numbers are limited at present. Mike Glover, managing director of Barcham Trees, hopes that the arrival of
the Princeton Elm will herald the renaissance of elms in the United Kingdom. “Not
only is the Princeton Elm extremely tolerant of Dutch Elm Disease, and able
to recover from it, but it is also very attractive and similar to our native
elm. What sets it apart from other resistant varieties is its proven track
record of 80 years”, he says. The Princeton Elm was originally selected for its observed resistance to known maladies, its classic elm shape and its large leathery leaves. Despite attacks from Dutch Elm Disease, Princeton Elms planted along roads back in 1932 remain in perfect condition today. Research conducted into disease resistance in the 1990s showed the Princeton Elm to have a 96 per cent survival rate. No other variety of Dutch Elm Disease susceptible, large leaved elm can match this combination of disease tolerance, longevity aesthetic appeal. Princeton Elms have recently been planted along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of The White House and at Highgrove House, Gloucestershire, home of HRH The Prince of Wales. We already supplying trees to our customers, but numbers are limited at present. Mike Glover, managing director of Barcham Trees, hopes that the arrival of
the Princeton Elm will herald the renaissance of elms in the United Kingdom. “Not
only is the Princeton Elm extremely tolerant of Dutch Elm Disease, and able
to recover from it, but it is also very attractive and similar to our native
elm. What sets it apart from other resistant varieties is its proven track
record of 80 years”, he says. |
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Once again Barcham Trees will be on display at this year’s (2006) Bentley Weald WoodFair, which is being held at Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum, Halland, Lewes, East Sussex. We hope we shall have the opportunity of meeting our many customers and friends in the south east at what is always a great day out for all the family.
The WoodFair is being held on Friday 15, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September from 9.30am to 5.00pm each day. We will be represented on not one, but two of the trade stands on display at the WoodFair. Look out for us with R W Green of Lewes, a company which supplies and plants our trees, and with E W Burrow of Heathfield, a nursery which holds a good stock of Barcham trees for sale direct to the public. Come and see for yourself the quality of the trees we offer!
Bentley Weald Woodfair is the leading woodland, wood-use and woodcraft event in the south east. The event includes displays of hedgelaying, carpentry, wood sculpture and firewood production, and includes a woodland theatre, longbow archery and exhibits of fencing, flooring, furniture and wooden toys.
Bentley offers a range of attractions to support the event, including a vintage and classic car collection, miniature steam railway, historic house and beautiful gardens, a wildfowl reserve and an adventure playground. For more information, log on to www.bentley.org.uk
RHS show a Tatton Park July 19th to 23rd 2006
The decision was made back in the autmn of 2005 that Barcham Trees would exhibit at the RHS show at Tatton Park in Cheshire, having completed the application forms, we then waited until February of 2006 to receive the invitation to exhibit.
As with all exhibition work the degree of success is down to the support from within the company, and there was no shortage of that. Two weeks before the show date, we walked the nursery to determine which trees should be exhibited, the actual stand design had been done in- house and submitted some months prior, along with risk assesments and other paperwork,and so now all we had to do was sort out the trees. We made a concious effort to include trees which would portray the diverse range which are available on the nursery in Ely and also to provide an visual example of the range of pot sizes which we use. As the show day came closer, materials were gathered and preparations made for the big day, Sunday 16 th July when we were due to start stand construction.The 16th arrived with soaring temperatures, but , the show must go on as they say so it was out with the spades and hammers and we set to work building the infrastructure,by early evening this part of the stand was complete, and we returned to our homes, happy in the knowledge that all was ready for the arrival of the trees on Monday morning. Bright and early, the trees arrived, carefully loaded by the despatch team back in Ely, and it didnt take long for the already warm sun,and a few gallons of water to get the foliage looking fresh again after their journey north.Very soon the trees were manouvered into place on the stand leaving only the canopy to be positioned and the trees to be labelled and watered again! Tuesday was Press day, and although there was some interest , the majority of activity was understandably closer to the show gardens. Wednesday through to Sunday, the show was open to the general public, and
indeed some of you who read this may well have visited our stand on those days,
if so, then thank you for your support, we experienced a great deal of interest
in our trees and were extremely pleased by the response of visitors to our
stand, the whole experience was made all the more enjoyable by the fact that
we were awarded a certificate of commendation for the high quality presentation
of the stand,and once again this was down to a total commitment of all involved
to make the show a success, a poignant reflection of the wholeday to day ethos
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Barcham Trees PLC, Europe’s largest container tree nursery, has set-up three regional UK offices in Sussex, Cheshire and east Suffolk so that staff can be closer to its clients and can offer them an improved service. The company’s head office remains at its 140 acre nursery site at Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Announcing the new structure, Barcham’s sales director Keith Sacre, who will be based at the Lewes, East Sussex office, said “Regional offices will keep us much more in touch with our customers. We can spend more time with them discussing their projects and ensuring we supply exactly what they require. It also gives us greater flexibility and is the ideal opportunity to develop stronger partnerships”.
The Northwich, Cheshire, office will be run by newly appointed sales executive Andrew Dunkley, who has worked as a self-employed arboricultural contractor and, more recently, for Notcutts and Farplants, while Dave Johnson heads the Framlingham, Suffolk, branch. Dave, who was brought up on a tree nursery, has spent more than 25 years in the trade and has a firm grounding in arboriculture.
“We shall be dividing our time between the firm’s regional bases and our head office, and the aim is to provide a first rate “on call” service to our customers”, concludes Keith.
Contact details
All three can also be contacted at Barcham’s head office, telephone 01353 720748.
Barcham Trees PLC, Europe’s largest container tree nursery, has set-up three regional UK offices in Sussex, Cheshire and east Suffolk so that staff can be closer to its clients and can offer them an improved service. The company’s head office remains at its 140 acre nursery site at Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Announcing the new structure, Barcham’s sales director Keith Sacre, who will be based at the Lewes, East Sussex office, said “Regional offices will keep us much more in touch with our customers. We can spend more time with them discussing their projects and ensuring we supply exactly what they require. It also gives us greater flexibility and is the ideal opportunity to develop stronger partnerships”.
The Northwich, Cheshire, office will be run by newly appointed sales executive Andrew Dunkley, who has worked as a self-employed arboricultural contractor and, more recently, for Notcutts and Farplants, while Dave Johnson heads the Framlingham, Suffolk, branch. Dave, who was brought up on a tree nursery, has spent more than 25 years in the trade and has a firm grounding in arboriculture.
“We shall be dividing our time between the firm’s regional bases and our head office, and the aim is to provide a first rate “on call” service to our customers”, concludes Keith.
Contact details
All three can also be contacted at Barcham’s head office, telephone 01353 720748.