UK Native Black Poplar Tree Planting

Friends of Coy Pond are privileged to support the Countryside Regeneration Trust (The CRT) in the conservation bid to save the UK's rarest timber tree: the Black Poplar (Populus nigra subsp betulifolia).

Native Black Poplars in Britain are faced with a very uncertain future and probably extinction without the intervention of conservation bodies and landowners.

The Friends of Coy Pond followed up an appeal from the CRT to help save the Black Poplar tree.

Conservationists at The CRT’s Bere Marsh Farm, near Shillingstone, Dorset, and Trees for Wimborne have been busy propagating cuttings which are to be distributed around Dorset and further afield.

Following successful application, the CRT has supplied a male sapling and Trees for Wimborne a female sapling.