I tend not to take much notice of these sort of things but I saw an item on the BBC website about this offer of a "jubilee oak" and reading on I see that these are raised from acorns from a tree on "a royal estate" (http://woodlandtrustshop.com/jubilee-trees/royal-oak-sapling)
And there am I thinking that using local clones was the most desirable - and having planted over 50 acorns in the autumn to help bulk up the trees here - and there are these spreading their genes across the country willy-nilly.
Actually I think it's appalling...
graham