On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:44:25 +0100, stuart noble wrote:

On 18/07/2015 22:47, Bob Hobden wrote:
"stuart noble" wrote in message ...

Every time I stroll round a London park I'm frustrated by not knowing
the names of the trees, particularly those that have obviously been
around for ever. There is one in flower in St.James Park at the moment
which everyone was stopping to admire (and smell). These days one
might expect there to be a plan of such things online. Sure, in this
case it would mostly be plane, but there are some unusual ones too.
Anyone any ideas how one might get this information? TIA

You may find this of some help, scroll down...
https://www.royalparks.org.uk/press-...-on-the-royal-
parks/trees



Thanks Bob. Very interesting, and strange that I didn't come across it
when searching the site.
One wonders what London would look like without its plane trees!

Have you tried the forestry commission? Just an idea, not guaranteed to
be a good one.

The royalparks site has errors that I noticed at a glance. They call
Nyssa sylvatica (I just killed one, hence the interest) a "tulip tree"
but in fact it is called a Black Tupelo, or Blackgum. Also they claim
Acer saccharinum is used for syrup, confusing it with Acer saccharum, a
common mistake. In actuality it's a poor syrup tree. /pendant mode.



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Gardening in Lower Normandy