Happy birthday to the National Tree Collections of Scotland, which turned 7 yesterday! 😁🎉🎂 We had a great time out at Dunkeld House Hotel (a NTCS site) walking the tree trail there with Doug partly to celebrate the day and partly to check out the route. facebook.com/nationaltreeco…

Thank you @CrathesNTS for hosting our networking event! It was great to see #NTCS site owners, managers, staff&supporters. Day included: Crathes overview+tour & sharing experiences of ageing tree avenues + securing funding to conserve tree collections. pkct.org/news/national-…

It was great to see our networking event in the The Press and Journal​ yesterday. Thanks again to @CrathesNTS for hosting us and everyone who attended the day. Scotland’s finest tree collections celebrated at Crathes Castle… pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberde…

Great to be on the #isleofbute for the #NTCS Networking Day here at Mount Stuart. #trees Dawyck Botanic Garden Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Mount Stuart Trust

Where were you 8 years ago today? In 2011, NTCS was launched at SconePalace! Keep up-to-date with all of our developments on our website: ntcscot.info Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Scottish Forestry @forestryls National Trust for Scotland

Thank you Mount Stuart Trust for hosting our annual networking day! We were treated to a tour of the #arboretum & speakers shared #tree + site mgmt by season, funding opportunities, ICCP, & possible climate change resilience and adaptation in forestry. ntcscot.info/scotlands-fine…

We visited CastleKennedyGardens in #Stranraer. We met w/ Scottish Forestry, Blebo Tree Surgery + site owners to look at work done to conserve #tree health & improve visitor experience. It's good to see #biosecurity measures in place there. It's well worth a visit! castlekennedygardens.com

Pucks Glen is a fantastic site even on a wet evening! Thanks for sharing these amazing photos @explorecowal!

It is great to see The Grand Old Man of Dawyck at Dawyck Botanic Garden Botanic Garden, an NTCS site, is nominated for #TreeOfTheYear! 🌳 Good luck to all of the spectacular trees this year! @WoodlandTrust Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh #trees #Scotland

The #ScottishTreeFestival starts next week across #Scotland!🌲🌳 There are 8 NTCS sites taking part: @CrathesNTS, Ardkinglas Estate, Benmore Botanic Garden, Mount Stuart Trust, Smeaton Lake Woods, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Dawyck Botanic Garden + CastleKennedyGardens. VisitScotland @scottishgdns #trees visitscotland.com/blog/events/sc…

Fantastic photography and feature by Nick Bailey and the Gardener’s World Team visiting the Chilean Rainforest Glade Benmore Botanic Garden Series 31 available now - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Lots more of the garden to discover. Come back soon!

Well done to our well organised friends at Woodland Trust Scotland on Saturday for #BigClimateFightback #EveryTreeCounts. Pleasure to join others in crisp sunshine at beautiful Kinclaven bluebell wood, and help plant the first 3500 native trees to extend this wonderful woodland.

The stunning geometry of nature's razor wire...zoom in for the full effects! #monkeypuzzle #araucaria #iccp #conifers #threatenedconifers #conservation #trees Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ICCP @forestryls NTCS

The impressive fish ladder and weir at Ardkinglas Estate. A beautiful site to see in between GPSing #threatenedconifers🙂🌲 #conifers #Ardkinglas #trees #conservation #argyll ICCP Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh NTCS

Abies pinsapo ssp. marocana Glasgow Botanic Gdns planted in 1994 - among the finest in cultivation!

If you are walking through Glasgow Botanic Gdns look for some of our rarer plantings of trees from the Conifer Conservation Project ICCP ,plant conservation in action and part of our Gardens’ Tree Trail.

Great to see Puck's Glen (a NTCS site) make @forestryls Wonderful #waterfall #walks!

That’s us done the GPS of all ICCP trees at NTCS Glasgow Botanic Gdns, which includes a conservation hedge of 60 Chilean plum yews, Prumnopitys andina.🌲👍 Such a stunning place! Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh @RBGE_Plant_Rec Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust #coniferconservation #chileanplumyew #conifers

Happy 9th bday to #NTCS!😀 We wish all our site owners/managers/supporters/would-be visitors well. Here’s to enjoying the NTCS sites again soon!🌳🌲 ntcs.org.uk Nigel Price #HelensburghTrees Estate Office Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh SconePalace Mount Stuart Trust CastleKennedyGardens