Trees - from the Hadlow Tree Warden

This blog is about trees, and my attempts to identify and understand them. The more you look at trees the more absolutely fascinating they become!

Tuesday, 7 July 2020

Liriodendron chinense and tulipifera

I saw a young Chinese Tulip Tree, Liriodendron chinense (Hemsley) Sargent, on the KMOTT visit to the Hill Farm Oast Arboretum garden on J...

Tuesday, 16 June 2020

The Chinese Cork Oak, Quercus variabilis, Bedgebury.

There are some nice young trees scattered about Bedgebury, and I rather think this is one of them, above one of the paths going away from t...

Friday, 12 June 2020

The Indian Horse-Chestnut, Aesculus indica

the Indian Horse Chestnut, Aesculus indica

Sunday, 7 June 2020

The Yellow or Sweet Buckeye, Aesculus flava

This lovely tree's natural range is the Ohio Valley and the Appalachian Mountains, USA. It was introduced to the UK in 1764. The tree I...

Monday, 1 June 2020

The Rauli, Nothofagus alpina

I found two lovely young "Rauli" trees this morning at The Grove, a woodland from the old Redleaf Estate. The Rauli or Alpine ...

Monday, 11 May 2020

The Common Horse Chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum

https://theecologist.org/2017/may/12/demise-horse-chestnut-tree-armageddon-or-scaremongering https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.co...

Sunday, 10 May 2020

The Japanese Horse Chestnut, Aesculus turbinata, not.

Owen Johnston has identified a tree in the Horse Chestnut collection at the front of Hadlow College as the Japanese Horse Chestnut, Aescu...

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Subbuteo: based in the village of Hadlow near Tonbridge in the Low Weald of Kent, Southeast of England, United Kingdom; Having changed gear from full-time to part-time work, I'm going to try to do some blogs along the lines of some of the existing fantastic ones that seem to be a Kent speciality. Main areas will be trees, plants, birds and insects, and general wildlife issues!

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