The Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley team are working in partnership with the Suffolk Tree Warden Network and Essex Forest Initiative to repopulate the Suffolk and Essex landscapes with native black poplar trees, one of Britain’s rarest timber tree.

Cuttings were taken from trees last February from our native black poplar clone bank and grown on at Nowton Park in Bury St Edmunds by the rangers and their volunteers.

As we are approaching the tree planting season, we need to start looking for homes for our black poplar saplings. The trees are container grown so they can be planted out at any time but planting them soon might generate some helpful autumn root growth ahead of next Spring/Summer.

If you’d like to plant a native black poplar and have a suitable location, such as by a watercourse, ditch, pond or floodplain in the Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley please contact Emma Black at dedhamvale.project@suffolk.gov.uk.