Roscommon Branch - Native Woodland Trust

26/05/2026

18/03/2026

Live in Roscommon or surrounds? We could use your help!

Thousands of seedlings we collected at the legendary St. Johns Wood are emerging from their overwintering trays. We're back at it this weekend at Rinnagan Nursery - extracting and sowing them into pots for their first growing season.

These little trees have ancient woodland DNA, and a bright future ahead to be planted in Rinnagan nature reserve just 500m away from their parent trees. It's ancient woodland expansion in action and we would love your support.

Simply DM or email [email protected] to RSVP

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17/03/2026

We're back at the nursery Sat 21st for more seedling sowing! Join us simply by RSVP to [email protected]

14/10/2025

Seed collecting season continues in Roscommon! 🌰🌿

Over the weekend our Roscommon branch returned to St John’s Wood near Lecarrow to gather seeds from as many native trees as possible — ensuring a rich mix of local genetics for the next generation.

Deep in the woodland, volunteers met ancient crab apple and towering oak, while on the edges stood fairy hawthorns and lone-wolf spindle trees.

At the Lecarrow holy well, an old hawthorn toppled in Storm Amy. Before it rests, it left us a legacy of bright red hawes — now safely collected to continue its line.

Back at our Lecarrow Wood nursery, we got to work:
🍎 1,106 crab-apple seeds
🌿 ~500 hawthorn (including from the holy-well tree)
💗 325 spindle, their candy-pink pods stripped of orange coats
🌰 and a bucket of acorns already sprouting tap-roots!

All are tucked into labelled trays and leaf-mould beds to overwinter — the next step in expanding one of Ireland’s oldest native woodlands.

Huge thanks to NPWS for permission to gather and to our brilliant volunteers for their time, laughter, and muddy hands. 💚

02/07/2025

A special thanks to everybody who joined us for this year's Wild Cherry collection!

There's plenty seeds to be collected so DM us or email [email protected] to join the fun!

Special thanks to Roscommon County Council for their support in growing our nursery facility so that we can keep on building our local provenance capacity 🌱

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27/05/2025

Our Irish Environmental Network coverage continues!

On Saturday, we visited our beloved Lecarrow Wood reserve in Co Roscommon.

With support from guest guide John Crossan, we explored the woodland with fresh perspective. Not only identifying and learning about the various trees, flowers and critters we came across, but how the Irish people have used them in times gone by.

We also got to visit a brand new grove of trees our volunteers planted over winter. Propagated from seed from St. Johns Wood, the hazel, holly, oak, crab apple, spindle and hawthorn trees were delighting in a much needed downpour. And so too were the volunteers who planted them!

Join our Roscommon branch or any of our County branches nationwide!
Help us expand old woodlands, and grow brand new ones, one seed at a time 💚

Thanks to John Crossan and to Irish Environmental Network for making this wonderful week of events possible. We're grateful for the opportunity to showcase our nature reserves countrywide, and the incredible work our MARVELOUS volunteers are doing ! 💚

Full coverage in our upcoming Summer Issue of Woodland: https://www.nativewoodlandtrust.ie/membership

Get involved by DM'ing us here or emailing [email protected]
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