Ancient Tree Forum
The Summer Conference The Ancient Tree Forum is the only UK organisation focused solely on the welfare of ancient and other veteran trees. They believe there should be no further avoidable loss of these trees through [...]
Clearing fence lines
We are currently engaged by the Dorset Wildlife Trust at The Verne Local Nature Reserve at Portland, Dorset. The land is owned by the local authority, Weymouth and Portland Borough Council, and the project [...]
Portland Bats
Dale is an active member of the Dorset Bat Group. The group is made up of volunteers with a shared passion - we all love bats! Our role is one of helping to record and protect the [...]
Ancient ash tree
The Coastal Tree Care team have been planting young, native trees, shrubs and hedging this week for PS Renewables (a solar farm installation company). Many planning authorities will stipulate the requirement for new [...]
Tree Inspection
Here at Coastal Tree Care we like to do things properly - as I hope is evident from the website content. This week I've been working through the LANTRA Professional Tree Inspection course [...]
Hog Cliff National Nature Reserve
The Coastal Tree Care team is currently engaged in some scrub clearance work for Natural England at Hog Cliff National Nature Reserve, near Maiden Newton. The work involves removing extensive overgrown areas of [...]
Sculpture Park
Great day today at Tout Quarry Sculpture Park Nature Reserve, managed by the Dorset Wildlife Trust. We've been commissioned to clear some dense scrub that has overgrown some of the sculptures, and today [...]
Scrub management
One of our specialities at Coastal Tree Care is scrub management; often for corporate clients or conservation bodies, but also for private clients in rural and suburban settings. Our team are experienced in [...]
Native hedgerow planting
20 dumpy bags ready for action... Connor and Dan start the native hedgerow planting Mega mulching! As the planting site was almost 350 metres [...]
Scrub bashing
As we approach the end of the Portland Living Landscapes project, we have just started to tackle a substantial area of scrub management over a former landfill site. The intention is to remove [...]