New NTCS & PCCP Project Officer appointed

The NTCS network brings together the best of Scotland’s historic tree collections to increase public awareness of and access to these collections and to help protect this aspect of our tree heritage for future generations. Scotland has some of the world’s finest tree collections. Their diversity reflects the role many individual landowners have played over the centuries collecting and planting specimen trees from around the world.

The PCCP began in 2010 to restore some of Perthshire’s most treasured landscapes and plant the next generation of Perthshire Big Tree Country while helping to protect some of the world’s most threatened conifer species. Through RBGE’s ICCP, seeds of rare and threatened conifer species are collected in their natural habitat and grown into small trees at RBGE’s Nursery before being planted out in safe havens in the forests, gardens and estates of Perthshire Big Tree Country to regenerate and restore Scotland’s historic collections of exotic trees. As well as enhancing Scotland’s landscape heritage, eventually it is hoped that seeds or genetic material from mature PCCP trees can be taken back to restore damaged or lost native forests in their countries of origin, thereby helping local communities around the world who depend on vital forest resources.