Scottish Native Woods will shortly be launching an important national project that will be seeking to rapidly expand the amount of native aspen that will be available from Scottish tree nurseries. The first step of this is collecting roots from aspen clones that can they be propogated vegetatively, and new techniques are being developed that will make this process more efficient, and also produce seeding orchards from which seed can hopefully be gathered in future years. Here is John Parrott, North Highland Area manager with Scottish Native Woods, with our first root section from Highland Perthshire, taken yesterday from beside the river Cononish. The following videos and photos give you some idea of how we go about doing this.
Anyone interested in this interesting project, or with any information about aspen sources, I would be delghted to hear from you. victor.clements@scottishnativewoods.org.uk
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