Author name: Richard Clarke

Apparently the word ‘plane’ goes back to early modern times in both French and English to identify this tree, although the word may have ancient Greek origins, and certainly one strain of plane tree is native to the eastern Mediterranean region. So the plane tree cannot be classed as a native species (s.p.b.s) and was […]

Above, another scene that may give some impression of the wildwood environment. In the wildwood plants and trees would all have been in competition for ground water and nutrients and for sunlight, ecologically a ‘dog-eat-dog’ environment. Of course, eras before the Halocene (since the last Ice Age) would have had their natural flora and fauna

Wildwood is the word used to define the natural vegetation that colonised the land as the ice sheets retreated after the last Ice Age, this before the influence of Man on the Natural vegetation and landscape. The above shows a section of the vegetation on the upper scarp slope of the lower Lias escarpment just

The current long, hot, dry spell of weather has resulted in very high pollen counts in the air, certainly in eastern England. At this time of year the air is full of pollen from both grasses and trees, the former now in full flower, the latter coming to the end, in most cases, of their

Today’s photo shows a view looking up to the underside of a young-mature beech tree in Pearson Park, Hull. Given what was stated in the last post/blog there are more patches of open sky than might be expected; this explained by the fact that the tree is still not fully mature and that it is

Today’s photo shows part of the arc of trees in Pearson Park, Hull that faces the triumphal arch entrance to the municipal park from Pearson Avenue. A mature copper beech stands behind a young redwood. Beech trees are shallow rooted and thus vulnerable in gales, especially when in a heavy canopy of leaves. Beech trees