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Trees - for Firewood
Access to your own firewood can reduce the cost of heating your home and there is a great satisfaction to sitting by a fire of logs you have planted, tended, and harvested yourself.
Deciding what to plant is usually determined by the space available and soil conditions. A good aid for choosing your ideal firewood planting is to look around your locality to see which trees are thriving, as these will generally be those that suit the conditions best.
Learn more about how to plant a tree in our advice section and find even more information in our resources.
Bareroot conifers | mid-November to March
Bareroot trees are only available from mid-November to March. You can learn more about the differences between bareroot and potted plants in our advice section.
Potted conifers | all year round
Potted trees are available all year, but the best selection, and the best time to plant, is in late spring (April to May) and early autumn (September to October).
Acacia melanoxylon
Acacia melanoxylon
€5.00
Acacia melanoxylon We had a 30ft Acacia melanoxylon here in the nursery but it was killed by the extreme cold of 2010/11, however the self sown seedlings survived and are now 20ft high! Acacia melanoxylon is a fast growing evergreen tree with broad, upright branches. The contrasting bark is reddish brown. Fluffy yellow, scented flowers appear in...
Betula pubescens - Downy Birch
€16.00
Downy Birch - (Beith chlúmhach) The native species Betula pubescens is a tall, deciduous tree rather similar to the silver birch but with creamy-brown bark rather than white, more upright branches, and fine down on the young twigs. It also prefers damper environments, being found on bogs, and tolerates shadier conditions. Narrowly conical habit....
Eucalyptus parvula (parvifolia)
€5.00
Kybean Gum One of the hardiest and most adaptable of the eucalypts, Eucalyptus parvula is a good choice for colder areas and wet, poorly drained or even alkaline soils. It’s a tall, quite slow-growing, evergreen tree which develops a large crown with a semi-weeping habit, although it can be grown in containers if regularly pruned by pinching out...
Eucalyptus subcrenulata
Eucalyptus subcrenulata
€5.00
Eucalyptus subcrenulata - Tasmanian Alpine Yellow Gum Closely related to Tasmanian yellow gum, but occupying more mountainous terrain, Eucalyptus subcrenulata is a fairly fast-growing, evergreen tree with a spreading, open habit, an attractive specimen tree for larger gardens. The bark is grey, peeling in vertical strips to reveal smooth patches...
RHS Empathy Afterplant - Tree & Shrub
€12.00
RHS Empathy After Plant Evergreen Empathy AFTER PLANT EVERGREEN is ideal for Buxus (box), Bay trees, Camelias, Yew, Conifers and all types of evergreen hedging or garden plants. Plants in the Ground: Apply 1-2 handfuls (25 – 50g) around the base of the plant, lightly worked into the soil and water well. for larger established plants apply 2 hand...
Rootgrow - Mycorrhizal Fungi
Rootgrow - Mycorrhizal Fungi
€5.00
Rootgrow - Mycorrhizal Fungi RHS Empathy rootgrow™ contains mycorrhizal fungi which naturally increase nutrient and water uptake by forming a highly efficient secondary root system. It is completely natural and plant-friendly fungi suitable for use on flowering plants, trees, shrubs and edibles. One application will support a plant for its entir...
Tree Stake
Tree Stake
€3.50
Tree Stake Round or square stakes, 5ft (1.5m) tall. Round stakes are for collection from the nursery only.
Tree Tie - Rubber Self Tie 60cm
€1.80
Tree Tie Rubber self-tie tree tie - 60cm (23.6in)
Acer pseudoplatanus - Sycamore
€1.50
Sycamore Everybody knows Sycamore. Like it or loath it, the first specimens were introduced approximately 900 years ago, and since then it has taken over woodlands, hedgerows, railway lines, cliff sides, and everything from the smallest urban garden to the largest of arboretums. It's feared for its persistence in seeding practically everywhere- ...
Alnus glutinosa - Common Alder
€1.50
Common Alder (Fearnóg) One of Ireland's most widely distributed trees, often found in damp boggy areas and along river banks. Like most broad-leaved trees, Alnus glutinosa flowers before the leaves are out with attractive long reddish catkins appearing as early as January. The female flowers produce small cones, and these can stay on the tree al...
Alnus rubra - Red Alder
Alnus rubra - Red Alder
€2.50
Red Alder Named for the rusty-red colour which shows when the grey bark is damaged, Alnus rubra is a tall, very fast-growing deciduous tree from the coastal north-west of the US and south-west Canada. It has a graceful habit with a narrow head and pendulous lower branches. The yellow male catkins are 6”/15cm long, appearing before the leaves; t...
Betula pendula - Silver Birch
€2.20
Silver Birch - (Beith gheal) The familiar native silver birch, Betula pendula, is a tall, deciduous tree with an open crown and gracefully drooping branches. The bark is white, peeling off in papery patches to reveal pale salmon under-bark. Long, brownish-yellow male catkins like lamb’s tails appear in mid-spring; the upright, female flowers are...
Carpinus betulus - Hornbeam
€2.00
Hornbeam Grown as a Tree A great tree for damp ground, Hornbeam make a good stately tree when mature, it will take the heavy ground that Beech dislikes and is a great grower in our wet climate. The wood is heavy and hard and is used for tools; it also burns hot and slowly, making it a very suitable tree for growing for firewood. Holds the RHS aw...
Castanea Sativa
Castanea Sativa
€3.80
Sweet Chestnut Long established in Ireland, the Sweet or Spanish chestnut, Castanea sativa, is a large, fast-growing deciduous tree with a broad-headed habit and distinctive, spiral grooves in the bark as the tree matures. Can reach 30-35m in height. Long, handsome, toothed leaves up to 20cm/8” long, turning yellow in autumn. Yellowish male catk...
Corylus avellana - Hazel
Corylus avellana - Hazel
€1.80
Corylus avellana - Hazel A native Irish tree, once believed to be the tree of knowledge, Corylus avellana is a large, deciduous shrub or small tree with a spreading, bushy habit. The large, mid-green leaves are broad, almost round, with a serrated edge, and turn yellow in autumn. The long, yellow male catkins appear in January and February; alth...
Eucalyptus glaucescens
Eucalyptus glaucescens
€5.00
Eucalyptus glaucescens - Tingiringi Gum When young, this Eucalyptus bears beautiful small round leaves arranged around each stem, popular among florists. Its mature leaves are long, tough, leathery and 'sickle' shaped. Its smooth grey bark sheds in short ribbons often gathered and used as kindling for fires. It is one of the quickest growing tre...
Fagus sylvatica - Green Beech
€1.50
Green Beech Grown as a Tree A well known, stately tree that is found throughout old estates and woodlands across Ireland. Fagus sylvatica, better known as Green Beech, is ultimately a very large deciduous tree with a dense broad head. Wavy-edged leaves emerge pale green and silky, maturing to glossy dark green. Fairly insignificant yellow-green ...
Populus tremula - Aspen
Populus tremula - Aspen
€3.00
Quaking Aspen - (Crann creathach) This is a beautiful tree with 'trembling' circular foliage, native to Ireland and much of Europe and Asia. It tends to grow in clonal colonies where it keeps 'suckering' rather than seeding, sometimes reaching many thousands of years old. When planted in a medium garden it is best to keep it well pollarded, for ...
Quercus petraea - Sessile Oak
€1.80
Sessile Oak Also known as the Irish or durmast oak, Quercus petraea is a tall, deciduous, very long-lived tree with a broad, rounded crown and an upright habit. The leathery, rather shallowly lobed leaves are deep green, turning brownish-orange in autumn; they have a long leaf-stalk. Inconspicuous greenish male catkins and tiny red female flower...
Quercus robur - Common Oak
€1.80
Common or Pedunculate Oak - (Dair ghallda) Also known as the pedunculate oak, Quercus robur is a tall, deciduous, very long-lived tree (1,000 years) with a broad, rounded crown. The leathery, rather shallowly lobed leaves are deep green, turning reddish-khaki in autumn; the very short leaf-stalk distinguishes it from sessile oak, as do the acorn...