The Tree Register

Come and see the fabulous spring colours in the amazing garden at Gresgarth Hall with its remarkable collection of rare trees and plants. Many of the trees and plants were collected and grown by the owner - Lady Arabella Lennox Boyd. gresgarthhall.com

Come and see the fabulous spring colours in the amazing garden at Gresgarth Hall with its remarkable collection of rare trees and plants. Many of the trees and plants were collected and grown by the owner - Lady Arabella Lennox Boyd. gresgarthhall.com

Come and see the fabulous spring colours in the amazing garden at Gresgarth Hall with its remarkable collection of rare trees and plants. Many of the trees and plants were collected and grown by the owner - Lady Arabella Lennox Boyd. gresgarthhall.com

An excellent evening at the @RGS_IBG last night. Seamus O’Brien’s talk on explorer & plant hunter Frank Kingdon Ward captivated guests with tales from India to the Himalayas. A rare treat to view the RGS’s botanical art collection too. hanks to our sponsor @BarchamTrees 🌳

The Tree Register Lecture. The Plant Hunters. LAST COUPLE OF DAYS TO BUY YOUR TICKETS. A fundraising lecture by Seamus O’Brien. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London 📅 12 November 2025 | £25 🎟 Tickets: bit.ly/42WGqLm

The Tree Register Lecture. The Plant Hunters. A fundraising lecture by Seamus O’Brien who retraced the steps of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward across Asia. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London 📅 12 November 2025 | £25 🎟 Tickets: bit.ly/42WGqLm #thicktrunktuesday

🌍✨Step into the wild with plant hunter Captain Frank Kingdon Ward. 📅12 Nov 2025 | @RGS_IBG | £25 | Students & Apprentices £10 🕰Doors 6:30pm, lecture 7:30–9:30pm, archives open before & after. 🎤Seamus O’Brien retraces Ward’s journey across Asia. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-plant-hu…

He braved the Himalayas, and brought home the impossible blue of the Himalayan poppy. 🌏💙 Join us as Seamus O’Brien retraces the footsteps of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward. 📅 Wednesday 12 November. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London. 🎟 Tickets: in the pinned tweet above.

The Plant Hunters Lecture 🎤 Presented by Seamus O’Brien Celebrating the life and travels of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward (1885–1958) the legendary explorer & plant hunter 📅 Wednesday 12 November 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London SW7 2AR 🎟 Tickets: link in pinned tweet

Rhododendron macabeanum, native to India, introduced to Britain by Frank Kingdon-Ward in around 1928. Here we see a fine example at Nymans (@nationaltrust) in West Sussex, grown from Kingdon-Ward’s original seed collection KW7724. #thicktrunktuesday

Tree Register - Plant Hunters 🎤 Presented by Seamus O’Brien Discover the adventures of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward (1885–1958) explorer and legendary plant hunter 📅 Wednesday 12 November 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London, SW7 2AR 🎟 Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-plant-hu…

🌍✨Step into the wild with plant hunter Captain Frank Kingdon Ward. 📅12 Nov 2025 | @RGS_IBG | £25 | Students & Apprentices £10 🕰Doors 6:30pm, lecture 7:30–9:30pm, archives open before & after. 🎤Seamus O’Brien retraces Ward’s 47-year journey across Asia.

🌍✨Step into the wild with plant hunter Captain Frank Kingdon Ward. 📅12 Nov 2025 | @RGS_IBG | £25 | Students & Apprentices £10 🕰Doors 6:30pm, lecture 7:30–9:30pm, archives open before & after. 🎤Seamus O’Brien retraces Ward’s 47-year journey across Asia. #thicktrunktuesday

The Tree Register Lecture. The Plant Hunters. A fundraising lecture by Seamus O’Brien who retraced the steps of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward across Asia. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London 📅 12 November 2025 | £25 🎟 Tickets: bit.ly/42WGqLm #thicktrunktuesday

The Tree Register Lecture. The Plant Hunters. A fundraising lecture by Seamus O’Brien who retraced the steps of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward across Asia. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London 📅 12 November 2025 | £25 🎟 Tickets: bit.ly/42WGqLm #thicktrunktuesday

🌳The Tree Register of the British Isles, often known as TROBI, is a charity that holds a recorded database of 250,000 trees. 🌲Celebrating our wonderful tree heritage, our database is a definitive list of champion trees. 💻treeregister.org #TROBI #ThickTrunkTuesday

This monstrous branchy, burred, tree stands in Kilmory Castle of Argyll and Bute. It's the Scottish champion Japanese Red Cedar (Cryptomeria japonica var. sinensis) with an impressive girth of 802cm (at 1m height) and stands 27.4m tall. Credit: Alan Hunton #thicktrunktuesday

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Well, that’s our single leaved Ash finally succumbed to the storms. @TreeRegister Out with the grafting knife and harvest some shoots this spring. So if anyone has tips on how to successfully graft Ash, let me know as I have tried before and failed.

#ThickTrunkTuesday Today's Thick Trunk is the UK girth champion Silver fir (Abies alba). Known as 'The Monster' with four large trunks forming a combined girth of 977cm. It was one of 70 trees chosen to be part of 'The Queen's Green Canopy' in 2022.