ForestHarvest: non-timber forest products in Scotland

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Forestart

Shropshire-based specialist seed supplier, including seeds of Scottish provenance. Services include testing, stratification, extraction, cleaning, grading, and cold storage of seeds, also contract collection of seed to meet specific requirements. Seeds of 400 tree and shrub species are available, over 50 of which are UK natives. Other products include seedlings of hard-to-germinate species and plug-grown woodland wildflowers. Seasonal seed collectors sometimes required.

Products

Seeds, seedlings, plug-grown plants

Species traded

Ash (Fraxinus excelsior)

Betony (Stachys officinalis)

Birch (Betula spp.)

Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus)

Blaeberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)

Elder (Sambucus nigra)

Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)

Gorse (Ulex europaeus)

Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)

Hazel (Corylus avellana)

Juniper (Juniperus communis)

Oak (Quercus spp.)

Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)

Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)

Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)

Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)

Sloe (Prunus spinosa)

Willow (Salix spp.)

Wych elm (Ulmus glabra)

Yew (Taxus baccata)

(See their website or contact direct for full up-to-date species list)

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