• 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 20 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.

  • William Tudway – Team Leader and HGV1

    William’s employment at Majestic Trees started as a Saturday job whilst he was finishing his A-levels, washing and greasing all the machinery and trucks. After his graduation in May 2019, he joined us full time, working mainly in the Planting & Logistics team where he quickly developed into a very able machine driver, going on to get various tickets for heavy equipment that he loves to drive. In 2021 we trained him to drive HGV’s, and low and behold he passes first time with 0 points! He then went on to pass his HGV1, and has recently stepped up to Team Leader as well as managing all our DVLA/VOSA operator’s license compliance. Will is a hardworking member of the team who enjoys practical, outdoor work, and nothing is too much trouble.

  • 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 fit 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.

  • Samuel Fraser – HGV2/Apprentice/Planting Team

    Sam has spent some years as a salesperson, but having always loved the outdoors and especially enamoured by trees, he started to look for a change in career whilst doing a RHS horticulture correspondence course. When he saw our ad he jumped at it, and quickly fit into the planting team, where he is hard working, friendly and always motivated to doing a good job. Sam is now enrolled in our apprenticeship program attending horticultural college combined with constant in depth structured training at Majestic Trees, and has machine tickets for telescopic forklifts, skidsteers and truck mounted forklifts. In his spare time when not in his garden, he spends it mountain biking, trail running and hiking; he just can’t get enough of the outdoors.

  • 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.

  • Andrew Hislop - Horticulturist & Planting Team Member

    Rew is another member of our team that studied horticulture at Writtle University, from where he graduated in 2008 with a BSc Honours degree in Horticulture. Upon leaving, he decided to start his own landscape company, but 15 years later he decided that he would rather let someone else do all the admin and worry about the finances. After a year as a team leader at a well-respected landscape company, Andrew joined our team, were his excellent knowledge, great attention to detail and people skills have quickly made him an important member.

  • Phil Lynch - Planting Team Member

    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.

  • Liam Seaton - Planting Team Member

    With almost five years’ experience as a golf course groundskeeper and as a gardener at an estate we supply, Liam joined our company in 2024 as a Planting Team member. Hard working, detailed and very much a team player, Liam has joined us to formally train as a horticulturist which will include taking his RHS 2 Certificate in Practical Horticulture as part of his apprenticeship.