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The first Sitka Spruce seed was sent back for successful cultivation in the West by the plant hunter David Douglas in 1826 to his patrons in Scotland, including to the estate at Scone Palace where he was employed as a gardener. Champion examples of Sitka Spruce dating from this period are still to be found in Scotland, Ireland and western England, notably in Cumbria and Devon.
After WWI it was decided that Britain was short of native timber and the Forestry Commission was established to plant trees for commercial use. Through trial and error, it was discovered that by far the most successful species for planting in the inhospitable upland regions of western Britain was the Sitka Spruce. All schemes approved by the Forestry Commission since WWII have therefore included a very high proportion of this tree for good practical reasons.
In the summer of 2009 we signed an agreement with Scottish & Southern Electricity to lease to them 73 Ha of our plantation, which has now become part of the Clyde Valley Wind Farm development. The trees in this particular area were moving towards fruition and so it was the ideal opportunity for us to get them felled with the minimum amount of fuss.