Author name: Richard Clarke

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

The photo above shows one of the groups of three trees planted close together in Pearson Park, Hull and mentioned in a post two posts back. As with most of the groups of three these are lime trees, in fact there is another group of three left of centre in the picture, again lime trees.

Recently I noticed that some of the leaves on a local lime tree had these (see above) peculiar sticky-up-bits on them, growing upwards out of the body of the leaf like emerging serpents. The leaves themselves seem ok, so far. Although lime (s.p.b.) is a native species of tree it is now rarely found ‘in