Tree News – Tree of the year

A forum for sharing and promoting tree news around Europe.

Ancient Trees Becoming a Thing of the Past

The demise of a massive, eleven-meter girth oak tree, the Buttington Oak, has sparked discussion about action that must be taken to adequately protect such ancient treasures of the countryside....

It’s been an eventful century for “the tree of Romania”

In the heart of the Apuseni Mountains, the Tree of the Year contest helps tree-lovers to join forces and save a plane tree in Câmpeni, a symbol of community and national unity, from being felled....

Road widening threatens Dutch Tree of the Year 2019

Even after surviving the construction of a highway, this 180-year-old tree is still in peril. Plans to create another lane on the road that the tree has stood in the center of for 30 years, propose it...

Britain's disappearing forests

With Britain being one of the least-wooded countries in all of Europe, trees and woodlands in the U.K. are finally getting the attention they deserve. ...

Too Much Attention for the Beloved Broccoli Tree?

You can’t un-saw a tree. And you can’t un-see one either. Though the beloved Broccoli Tree was destroyed by vandals, its memory lives on....

How to plant trees, without lifting a finger

It appears to be common knowledge (to most anyway) that planting more trees is a pretty good idea. They are not only beautiful, they can produce ‘free food’ of fruit and nuts, they c...