Volunteers have been given 1,200 saplings including hawthorn, blackthorn, elder and hazel.

Ash dieback – a fatal disease of Britain’s native ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) – is one of the worst tree disease epidemics the UK has ever seen. The disease is caused by a fungus that originated in ...

A recent, Swedish study has revealed crucial information for horticulturalists in the UK, and in Northern and Central Europe, in their battles against the aggressive attacks of the Chalara ...

For the past decade the outlook has been gloomy for European ash trees devastated by ash dieback and facing the threat of more invasive pests. For the past decade the outlook has been gloomy for ...

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has acknowledged that ash dieback is in the UK to stay. Since it was first confirmed at a Buckinghamshire nursery in March, the number of cases has slowly increased ...

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has acknowledged that ash dieback, a disease that threatens the UK's ash trees, will not be eradicated. Announcing the government's action plan to tackle the ...

An ash tree in Norfolk affected by the dieback fungus which turns the leaves brown usually causing the whole tree to die Scientists researching a deadly ash fungus believe creating a seed orchard ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered how a new generation of ash trees are more resistant to ash dieback disease than their parents. Ash trees produce high-quality timber, ...

The fungal disease Ash Dieback is expected to decimate the population of Ash trees across Britain. The rapid decay in affected trees can make them dangerous to anyone walking underneath, not to ...

The fungus has already caused widespread damage to ash tree populations in continental Europe since it was first reported as an unknown new disease in Poland in 1992. Chalara dieback fungus is ...

Nick Atkinson is a Fellow at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. He is also an employee of the Woodland Trust. Ash dieback – a fatal disease of Britain’s native ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) – is ...