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This was on my "to do" list. Of the locations listed, I was entirely unaware of Cleary Garden. Reading around, it seems that Fred Cleary was a man ahead of the environmental curve who lived an interesting and successful life.

Frank F | 20.10.20 - 8:10 a.m. | #

3 - I don't care about the experts, that looks like a bush.

An instance where what3words would have been very helpful.

Still Anon | 20.10.20 - 8:16 a.m. | #

'..excited about Caucasian walnuts..' is not a phrase I expected to read this morning. It's great there are so many trees across London, you really get a feel for this when you get up high and can look across big area, it looks like an urban forest.

Johnny Topaz | 20.10.20 - 8:36 a.m. | #

Might have been a possible target for a day out but now I won't bother... Why are there two 11 photos?

davews | 20.10.20 - 8:36 a.m. | #

Some good tree pictures, and the doubtful identifications make a much more interesting story than a simple list of trees. The search is better than the treasure.

Malcolm of Kent | 20.10.20 - 8:39 a.m. | #

Caucasian wing nuts not walnuts! transblawg.eu/2017/caucasian-and-other-wingnuts

I have attended a tree course at City Lit run by Letta Jones where we were told that in six weeks we might learn to recognize 8 trees or something. Btw I recommend a row of recent dawn redwoods along Carey Street at the back entrance to the Law Courts.

Margaret | Homepage | 20.10.20 - 8:57 a.m. | #

One of the most interesting I've seen in London is the Indian Bean Trees (Catalpa bignonioides) in both New Palace Yard & Black Rod's Garden at the Houses of Parliament 🌳

Kevin Too | 20.10.20 - 9:18 a.m. | #

The Tree Trail leaflet includes several spelling errors including ‘Noth’ and ‘Opporsite’, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve muddled their wingnuts and walnuts.

It also listed Wood Street as Wood Lane (now fixed, thanks).

diamond geezer | Homepage | 20.10.20 - 10:02 a.m. | #

With apologies for the pedantry, the plane tree mentioned at #2 is at the juntion of Cheapside and Wood *Street*.

CJS | 20.10.20 - 10:03 a.m. | #

"because exactly how much land does a tree cover anyway..."

Trust DG to bring previously unconsidered condundrums into our minds of a Tuesday morning!

BWB | 20.10.20 - 10:09 a.m. | #

I downloaded the app TreeTalk onto my phone but haven't used it yet. I wonder if it might be more accurate.

Caz | 20.10.20 - 11:00 a.m. | #

Caucasian wingnut and Caucasian walnut are alternative names for Pterocarya fraxinifolia. Perhaps more often called a wingnut than a walnut (Pterocarya species rather than Juglans) although both are both in the walnut family.

I didn't realise the row of trees on Queen Victoria Street were elms. Just around the corner from the ginkgos too. I'll have to take a more careful look next time I am in town; next year perhaps, they way things are going. There is a large elm tree in Marylebone.

Nice photos. We really noticed the turn to browns and reds and yellows on our woodland walk this weekend, although central London appears to be a week or two behind Hertfordshire. Skeins of birds overhead too, migrating south.

Andrew | 20.10.20 - 11:17 a.m. | #

Maybe both #11 photos illustrate para #11.

ActonMan | 20.10.20 - 11:27 a.m. | #

I read once that Greater London has more trees than Cambridgeshire, oddly enough..

Adrian | 20.10.20 - 11:46 a.m. | #

Tree-mendous.

(bell tolls, wind whistles..)

R | 20.10.20 - 12:00 p.m. | #

I probably won't bother with the tree trail, but I'm definitely going to seek out Cleary Garden if I have another reason to head into town ever again!

Cornish Cockney | 20.10.20 - 1:05 p.m. | #

I recommend the West Ham Park Tree Trail [pdf]. In particular there is a national collection of Liquidambars. These were spectacularly colourful when I visited on the 13th November 2018.

BlackCat3000 | 20.10.20 - 8:55 p.m. | #

This GLA Tree Canopy Cover map is also interesting, though under very close inspection, algorithms have their limits. It would be interesting as an overlay to the London Tree Map

NickW | 21.10.20 - 8:30 a.m. | #

A reminder of nominative determined Paul Wood’s book London’s Street Trees. It really is an interesting read. I bought the book and map directly from him and he sent me a thank you card with the delivery, which was nice.

Lux | 21.10.20 - 12:55 p.m. | #











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