Fern Snowling – Planting & Logistics Director, HGV1

Fern joined Majestic Trees in 2004 and over the next 9 years she moved up to become the Logistics Manager before deciding to go traveling around the world for two years. Thankfully she came back and quickly picked up where she left off. Today she manages both the planting and the yard team, besides being a very talented machine operator holding all relevant licenses for any size telescopic fork lift, skidsteer, Hiab’s, excavator, etc and HGV trucks. She is both driven, hardworking, and very able at managing people, though still very hands-on who is extremely logical and delights in team efficiency, effectiveness, and making it happen whatever the challenge. She radiates camaraderie and promotes the teams high morale, and serves on the company’s Senior Management Committee.

Nick Wild – Planting, Logistics & Facilities Support, HGV1

Nick finally made the decision to leave his desk job for a life more Majestic and we really couldn’t have hoped for a better match. After an earlier career in insurance, his years of tinkering with old tractors and Land Rovers at his smallholding developed his natural mechanical ability, which combined with his attention to detail and friendly, positive outlook, make him the ideal character to be Fern’s right hand man, supporting her day to day. He is a very able machine driver, and whether he is driving an artic or repairing machinery, loading a trailer full of trees or whatever gap needs filling, Nick will always do a very good job.

Carl Batchelor - Team Leader & HGV1

Carl has worked in the horticultural industry for over 30 years, having joined Majestic Trees in early 2004 where he has progressed from crew member to a leadership role. Carl has a practical “can-do” approach with a commitment to excellent customer service that makes him an invaluable team leader. He is fully competent in all plant and machinery we own, including excavators, telehandlers, skidsteers etc., and holds all relevant tickets as does all of his crew that operate them. Carl also holds both a HGV1 and 2 rigid and articulated truck licenses, City & Guilds NVQ2 in Horticulture and is a fully qualified First Aider.

Katrina Rhodes – Scheduling/Administrator

Katrina joined us from Xerox in 2016 where she had worked for 17 years in a fast-paced customer care oriented role. We had been trying to persuade her to join us for 16 years as she also happens to be a superb gardener, a fact known by those of us who live locally and have witnessed her past successes with her vegetables at the annual village show. We finally persuaded her to bring her talents to Majestic Trees, where she now organises all our scheduling, liaises with customers on a daily basis and provides versatile practical support to a wide range of projects as the need arises. Totally dedicated to customer service with a nothing is too much trouble attitude, Katrina is very efficient, logical, great at problem solving and always thinking outside the box.

Michael Flemons – Team Leader and HGV1

Michael has been with us since the spring of 2019 having done tree surgery work for many years. He joined us initially as a temp in the busy spring season, but was attracted by the prospect of working for a dynamic and growing company and soon expressed an interest in joining us permanently as a member of the planting team. He quickly fitted in, and has a ‘do whatever it takes’ attitude, with a good work ethic and a happy deposition that makes the day fly by for his team mates. Customers also speak very highly of Michael, so much so that he was promoted to Team Leader and passed his HGV1 to drive our artics, as well as machine tickets for telescopic forklifts, skidsteers and truck mounted forklifts.

Edward Coates - Horticulturist & Planting Team Member

Growing up with a mother and older sister that were both professional horticulturists, and with so much love of growing all around him, Edward decided that he would pursue the same career path. On leaving school he went to work as an apprentice at an Acer Palmatum nursery for two years whilst attending Pershore College of Horticulture, and after watching Majestic Trees at work at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, joined our team in the autumn of 2023. Edward is driven and has a passion for horticulture as proven by him winning bursaries to attend the European International Propagators Annual convention, then the international conference in the USA in 2024. He has become an integral part of our team, works hard and always smiling.

Phil Lynch - Planting Team Member and LGV Driver

After over 20 years as a professional photographer, Phil found himself with no weddings or any other celebrations to photograph when Covid hit in 2020. Having always been an avid gardener, Phil naturally gravitated towards working for a friend who had a landscape and fencing company to tie him over till he could go back to photography. However, he found his new love, so decided on a career change beautifying people gardens before he joined our team in 2024. Hard working with great people skills, Phil has a great eye for detail and quickly fit into our team.

Toby Eavis – Horticulturist & Planting Team Member

Toby grew up on a nursery in the West Country, were as a boy he worked alongside his dad before going to do his Business Management Degree at Southampton University before returning to the family nursery. In 2025 he decided to spread his wings, so joined the planting team at Majestic Trees, were he quickly proved how knowledgeable and able he was, having completed his RHS Practical Horticulture 2 as well as a number of heavy machinery tickets. Always positive with can do attitude, he has quickly become an important member of the team.

Mark Hernandez– Planting Team Member

Having emigrated from his native Trinidad & Tobago to the UK late 2024, Mark decided that he wanted to work in horticulture, having loved agricultural work in his home country. As a result, he applied to join our team early in 2025, where he quickly proved his love of the outdoors, whether potting, planting, strimming, or whatever you asked him to do, always with a cheerful and positive attitude. With his excellent customer service skills, he has primarily moved from the nursery to the planting team, where his hard work ethic has fit in well.  

Daniel Skinner – Yard Team Member

After a few years of trying to get regular work as a grip in the film industry, Daniel joined our team in the spring of 2024, during the busy season. He quickly proved his worth, especially his effectiveness at preparing trees for shipment, rootballing and loading our fleet of trucks. Always happy, he will complete whatever is asked of him to a high standard, whether bent over rootballing trees all day, or out with the planting team. He is also an able and ticketed machine driver, whether driving a telehandler, skidsteer or articulated loader.