Trees

Rowallane Belfast

Extensive damage to National Trust NI estates following hurricane force gales

A huge tree pulled down power lines and smashed a car when it crashed down in Glasgow during Storm Éowyn.

VIDEO: Huge tree crushes car and pulls down power lines

Alpacas dine on donated Christmas trees

Super-sweet alpacas tuck into prickly treat - of donated Xmas trees

Farming Life news

New Tree Planting Taskforce will oversee planting of millions of trees

SuperValu and Centra call on groups to apply for trees as part of project

Trees feature quite a lot in the Bible

Good News for the countryside: Gospel truths in the trees

Carla Lockhart MP

NI excluded from Woodland Trust scheme

Going Green: Trees helping breath new life into the world

Liz Bonnin. Photo: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images

Going Green: Plant now before extreme weather hits

How to make your garden look expensive without spending a fortune simple tips and tricks for summer. Picture: Canva Images

How to make your garden look expensive on a budget

Family history website reveals women aren't traced in family trees

Shaun Tookey cleans graves as a side hustle but hopes one day to make it a full time job. Picture: SWNS

Grave cleaning a "peaceful" & "satisfying" side hustle

What is better than the smell of pine trees in the forest on a winter’s day walk? Pic: Woodland Trust

The rings of a tree

These 'new' Christmas traditions are slowly pushing old ones out

Forensic investigators from Northumbria Police examining the felled Sycamore Gap tree (Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Two new suspects arrested in Sycamore Gap tree investigation

Work has now started chainsawing the felled tree into sections for its removal (Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Beloved Sycamore Gap tree to be cut up and removed from site
Work has now started carving the famous felled tree into sections with chainsaws, before it is taken away on Thursday
Amber Allott

The UK’s perfect climbing tree is given the name Mr Silly Arms

A £1million mansion could be yours for £550,000 - but buyers should be aware it comes with a huge catch.

£1m mansion up for grabs for bargain £550k – but there’s a huge catch

Peter Gregory died after the hot air balloon he was travelling in ‘fell from the sky’ over Worcester on Sunday, June 25.

Tributes pour in for pilot who died in hot air balloon horror crash

King Charles III

King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Chelsea Flower Show

Brian Malcomson, MICFor Senior Forest Manager.

Connecting trees, farmers and foresters

Sir David Attenborough and Queen Elizabeth II was born less than three weeks apart.

Sir David Attenborough plants oak tree in honour of Queen Elizabeth

South Wales Police have named those killed in the crash

Three people killed in Cardiff car crash named by police

Red Squirrel Appreciation Day 2023: Do they still exist in the UK and where can I see them?

Red Squirrel Appreciation Day: Where in UK to see the native species

It’s time to take your tree down... according to tradition

When to take down your Christmas Tree to avoid bad luck

Reese, far right, and his team with some of hundreds of toys they bough from Smyth's Toy Shop

The real-life Santa who spent £15,000 buying presents for children

Best artificial Christmas trees for 2021:

Best artificial Christmas trees 2022, from budget to luxury options
An artificial tree can be a cost effective, ecologically sound alternative to their ‘genuine’ companions. Time to consider buying artificial for Christmas?
Katrina Conaglen

Mp’s will be able to put Christmas party food and decorations on expenses

Taxpayers to foot bill for MPs Christmas parties

The World Conker Championship returned this past weekend

What is the World Conker Championships?

8 ways to reuse dead leaves this autumn - including home decor

Trees will be an integralpart of our future

Dexters in agroforestry. Picture: Sinead Mathers

Trees and livestock events taking place in Co Antrim next week

Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister, Edwin Poots MLA visited Balcas Timber Ltd to support 'Time for Timber', the global wood manifesto. Pictured with the Minister are Mike Glennon, Managing Director Glennon Bros, Brian Murphy, CEO Balcas and Pat Glennon, Managing Director Glennon Bros.

Poots visits Balcas Timber Ltd

DAERA Minister Edwin Poots is pictured planting a tree at Redburn Country Park with Sir Robin Masefield and Dr Bill Lockhart from Holywood Shared Town.

Trees planted to help offset COP26 travel emissions

When it's snowing remove damaged growth

Five tips for saving your garden from unexpected snow

Christmas decorations from Gisela Graham and Lidl, along with Christmas lights

Christmas decorations: Gisela Graham ornaments and Lidl, and lights

Wonderful trees

Iain Heap, Director of IT, Process & Change at Hughes Insurance and Ian McCurley, Director of Woodland Trust.

Hughes Insurance makes £24,000 donation to Trust

Self Help Africa Northern Ireland Ambassador Rob Herring plants a tree for the charity

Offset carbon footprint and plant trees in Africa

Planting 1 million trees for a greener future

Christmas tree fundraiser

Hospice support from Christmas tree collection service

Here’s how to get a real Christmas tree for just £9 this year

NI Water’s ambition, to plant over 1 million trees over the next 10 years is underway. As the second biggest landowner in Northern Ireland, NI Water is delivering a large-scale planting programme across 11,300 hectares of land

NI Water plants million trees for a greener future

Planting trees on the banks of the River Faughan with the Woodland Trust and the Loughs Agency

Joe Mahon digs deep in the next episode of UTV’s Lough Foyle

Cabin Wood. Picture: Michael Cooper

20 years of community Woods on Your Doorstep

Ash to ashes

John Hetherington, Managing Director, Premier Woodlands

Minister must prioritise forestry development

The rowan or mountain ash has a variety of uses on the farm and is a haven for wildlife.

Rowan is a very versatile tree

Carolyn Trimble from IndiWoods inspecting one of their newly planted woodlands with Sennen, her Springer Spaniel.

SGN Natural Gas puts down local roots by planting 7,000 trees

Pupils from schools across NI help DAERA Minister Edwin Poots MLA plant the first of 1,000 tree saplings at CAFRE’s Loughry College, Cookstown as part of the new ‘Forests For Our Future’ programme, which aims to plant 18 million trees by 2020.

DAERA tree planting scheme gets underway

Clean water helps all life live healthily and is a critical component of a living, working, active landscape valued by everyone

Trees and watercourses – Why bother?

Premier Woodlands' managing director John Hetherington

Tree planting and climate change

CAFRE staff and commercial egg producers from Northern Ireland pictured at Belfast International airport about to head off on the their Farm Innovation Visit to England.

Commercial egg producers join CAFRE on tour

Over 700,000 free trees available for communities to fight climate change

Robin Swann

Forest Expansion Scheme – farmers urged not to miss deadline