Editor's Picks
Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy was an Austrian botanist and...
Eike Jablonski
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Jun 11, 2016
This article is an account of the oak field trip organized...
Charles Snyers
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Sep 22, 2017
North American oaks have a northern temperate origin and...
Website Editor
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Oct 12, 2017
Plant Focus
Quercus acutissima Carruth. is a species whose natural distribution covers a vast territory in East and Southeast Asia, from central Nepal...
Tree Hunter Rob McBride's Oak Adventures
Ancient tree specialist Rob McBride contacted our website to share some of his work on oaks. A self-styled “tree hunter”, Rob campaigns to raise public awareness of veteran, heritage, and ancient trees, encouraging their protection—or lamenting their preventable demise. Follow the links below to view his rich stories concerning outstanding oaks in the British Isles.
- Discovering a 10-meter girth oak: Eaton Manor Violet Oak
- The fall of the largest-girthed oak in Wales: The Pontfadog Oak
- Propagating The Pontfadog Oak
- Campaign to save a great Welsh Oak pollard, c. 500 yrs old
- Searching for the new Champion Oak of Wales
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