Author name: Richard Clarke

History often denies simple answers, such as where was the first municipal park in Britain created? Three relevant texts; Elborough, T. ‘A Walk in the Park’ (Penguin Random House, 2016), Lasdun, S. ‘The English Park’ (Andre Deutsch, 1991) and Conway, Hazel ‘Public Parks’ (Shire Garden History, 1996) have varying opinions. Of the two words ‘municipal’ […]

It may come as a surprise, it did to me, to discover that Kingston upon Hull is officially classed as a green city being, I believe, in the top ten of Britain’s green cities. I assume that this classification is determined by the degree of green coverage when deciduous trees are in leaf, this when

I’m sure that the recent Agriculture Act links in to the recognised pressing demand for the planting of many more trees. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen and can therefore play a significant role in reducing climate change. Globally trees are still being felled at an alarming rate where a demand exists for the

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,