Paul Wood 🌳

Inspired by Paul Wood's excellent "1,000 Trees to find in Britain and Ireland's Towns and Cities" I'm starting a slow burn thread on the most interesting trees of Hendon, Mill Hill and Edgware @TheStreetTree

URGENT We’re 5 weeks out from Urban Tree Festival and still building the funding to make it happen. Please share our sponsorship call, tag us and shout about us far and wide with tree orgs, local authorities & businesses who want to make a positive contribution. Thank you!💚

Disgraceful scenes on the streets of Falmouth today, as @CornwallCouncil deliberately flouted the law in order to needlessly destroy three perfectly healthy & beautiful street trees. Even worse, to stop the local citizens who elect & fund them) from peacefully trying to stop their unlawful behaviour, the council turned the street into a battleground & used dozens of police & private security to allow their vandalism to go ahead, enforced with violence if necessary.

Still time to sign up for this talk happening with @TheTreeCouncil at lunchtime today! tickettailor.com/events/thetree…

Tree people, we came across this smallish, multi-stemmed tree in Bath Botanical Gardens today and it has us stumped. Apparently deciduous, leaves nearly as thick as a holly. Apps uncooperative. Ideas? @TreeRegister @TheStreetTree @TiCLme

@HughWilliamson @TreeRegister @TiCLme Could it be a Photinia? Otherwise no idea!

Swamp cypress, Cally Park this afternoon @CallyPkFriends @TheStreetTree

Echo today. 🌳❤ #SaveChester #SaveOurTrees #Southend #Essex #EchoNews #SouthendCityCouncil #SKArchitects #Trees #Nature #Biodiversity #Climate #UrbanGreenSpace #HumanRights @canopyorguk @MFeriaTinta @TheStreetTree @TreesforStreets @ChrisGPackham @thetreehunter @paulpowlesland

Another fun & fabulous walk around (quite possibly) the greatest part of London 😎🌳😎🌳 #Bermondsey 🥰

This is the first American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) I’ve knowingly seen in the UK - #KewGardens of course! Despite being one genetic parent of the common, hybrid, #Londonplane, it’s unusual in this country Have you seen one growing anywhere else in Britain ? 🌳🇬🇧🤔

There was a time when people were visiting #Bermondsey from around the world, thanks to Ada Salter’s tree-planting and urban planning efforts that made it an international example of improved living standards for all. Learn more about it 10.30am-12.30, Sat 11th October.

@StevenFalk1 @britwildlife Couldn't agree more Steven!

@TheStreetTree Well done Paul. We’ve now both produced articles on tree hunting for @britwildlife. Mine was back in 2012 britishwildlife.com/article/articl…. Tree-hunting and critical cultivar identification can be such fun and often leads into interesting avenues of history and geography.

Features a lovely review of Tree Hunting

First event runs this Saturday, see them all on eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/o/paul-wood-14…

Sunday 12th October, Finsbury Park to Clissold Park, N4-N16 eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-trees-…

Last few tickets available for my October London tree tours. I'm leading walks in Highgate, Hackney, Bermondsey and from Finsbury Park to Clissold Park. 🧵

@TheStreetTree Finally completed your south London walk!