Author name: Richard Clarke

This photo shows the view south from Middlegate an ancient trackway high up the side of the scarp slope of the chalk escarpment of the northern Lincolnshire Wolds; in the middle distance can be seen some visible evidence of the town of Brigg while on the horizon can be seen in the haze Lincoln cathedral […]

Returning to the theme of beech trees as mentioned in post/blog 14 of this series I was amazed to discover that in some mountainous parts of Bulgaria are forests of ancient beech woodland that are thought to have been there since post-Ice Age colonisation. Presumably these will be in the foothills as beech is not

The photo above shows one of the other nearby oak trees to the one shown in the previous blog/post. This individual has a canopy more vertical than the one in the previous picture, the top part of the canopy having a dense leaf coverage while the middle part of the canopy is far more open,

Above is a photo of a mature oak tree in Pearson Park, Hull. I was surprised to learn that there are over 500 species of oak tree globally, although all are native to the Northern Hemisphere. presumably some oaks have been introduced to areas in the Southern Hemisphere with climates similar to those to the

Seen beneath the tree shown in the previous blog were these two objects. They are two seed pods of the plane tree, the one on the left being open and revealing the many seeds, each with a delicate ‘wing’, awaiting to be carried off by the breeze, an example of wind-blown reproduction. These round seed

Today’s photo shows another young plane tree (s.p.b.) planted in the landscaped area beside the Tidal Barrier spanning the River Hull near the mouth of the River. A common ancestor of today’s plane trees has been discovered in plants fossils from the Paleocene geological era, this being approximately 60 million years past, in an era