Aytoun Barks Back

NEW hi-tech roadside air-filtration system AKA street trees 🌳🍃 In London it's estimated that city trees are removing🧽up to 2k tonnes of particulate matter annually. Whilst a Lancaster Uni study revealed a 50% drop⬇️in particulate matter inside homes screened by trees... Let's fill all our streets with trees! TreesforStreets.org Sources: Southampton Uni southampton.ac.uk/news/2011/10/t… Lancaster Uni pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

👏👏 It was a lovely busking spot in last weekend's Street Choirs Festival, which Sheffield hosted. Beautiful planting, and a xylophone you play with your feet 🙃. (Manchester would have said yes to a 35-storey tower in that spot……)

Lots of people asking me where I was when Sunak announced the election. I was inside, because it was raining. Only an idiot would have gone out in that... #GeneralElection

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." (Somerset House, London)

@RobGMacfarlane We were planning a similar enquiry as a Festival challenge- streets named after trees felled and streets misnamed after a tree that doesn’t survive / grows there @TheStreetTree

This is our famous plane tree @Allianz @allianzuknews acting with @AvivaUK are pressuring @haringeycouncil to fell on Nov 23. In the climate crisis, can this be justified? This healthy tree provides habitat, disperses flood water, absorbs pollution. @BBCLondonNews @annamoore83

How the Aytoun trees' environment could look 🥰

Every now & then, take a moment to admire the beauty of a humble street tree 🌳👀 …you’ll be in for a treat 💚

Look up 👆 You don’t have to go outside of cities to see magnificent trees 🌳 On this lovely autumn day 🍂 pause to do some street tree forest bathing 🧘

Our wonderful trees support a huge number of wildlife! 🌸 Providing food for pollinators 🐭 A refuge for even the smallest of creatures 🐦 Food for wildlife in preparation for the difficult winter months And so much more!

Amazing also to encounter peanut butter trees in Herne Hill, thanks to @TheStreetTree's book - the leaves really do smell like peanut butter 😀

The London planes in Cavendish Square, just off Oxford Street in central London, are toweringly magnificent

Wow, these fine old plane trees in London's Brunswick Square are a great encouragement to the Aytoun planes to keep on keeping on 🥰

Why is this black poplar in Gorton’s Annie Lees Park in the running for an award? aboutmanchester.co.uk/gorton-tree-in…

Good morning tree friends from this Natal forest cabbage tree 🌿🌿#trees #Treepeople #nature

If you enjoyed my recent post about London’s planes, you might like this fascinating post from a Canadian in Paris about that city’s planes (and other trees). parisianfields.com/2023/08/06/sil…

Made up to see the Aytoun trees feature as the only non-London image in a new blog post from @TheStreetTree about London planes - thestreettree.com/2023/08/05/the…

It's @UrbanTreeFest's Day Four and there's an intriguing free online talk at 1pm on the 'tiny forest' method of tree planting - urbantreefestival.org/trees-outside-…

@ManchesterMill Hang on, who told you there were only eight protected trees in the city centre? There are 31 of us In the lovely Aytoun Street horseshoe of London plane trees, and we got our TPO through (after a long campaign) in October 2021…

We made this map of protected trees in Manchester but can't spot any patterns - pls help