On 01/08/2015 07:49, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:14:45 +0100, stuart noble
wrote:

On 31/07/2015 18:03, Christina Websell 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 could buy yourself a book about trees? remember books?




I have the Collins guide, but I don't take it (or my camera) everywhere
I go.

You could take leaves home and look them up.


Yes, then there might be a 50% chance of identifying the tree! :-)

As the various parks depts already have this information, I am puzzled
as to why this isn't made available, digitally or otherwise, to the public