Founded in 1980, UK-based container tree specialist Barcham Trees has pioneered and promoted container tree production on a large scale and has one of the largest container tree nurseries in Europe.

The first 500 trees in white containers for market were produced in the nursery in 1991 and the nursery has since grown steadily to its current size where some 80,000 trees are containerised each year. At the moment the nursery has the capacity to hold 160,000 trees, which are containerised using the Barcham designed potting machine. This machine is the only one of it’s kind and has the capacity to pot over 1,000 trees each day during the dormant season. It was the brainchild of production director Warren Holmes-Chatfield who sketched out the design, which was later turned into reality by a local foundry.

Innovation in container tree production has been the Barcham trademark with the new light pot being the latest in a long line of successful modifications to the original product introduced around 15 years ago. Barcham has also successfully built two reservoirs with a combined capacity of 72,000 cubic metres, which makes the company virtually self sufficient in water.