Here is the photo of blackthorn in flower near Bransholme Centre as promised in the previous blog (s.p.b.). Recently the main theme in an episode of Countryfile (BBC, Sunday evenings) was the growing and processing of sugar beet. The sugar beet factory at Wissington was often shown, the largest such site in Britain and which […]

I intended to upload a photo of a blackthorn bush taken while walking passed the Siemens site (s.p.b.), but it seems I pressed the video button rather than the photo and videos cannot be uploaded. I do have a photo of a large blackthorn bush and hedge taken from the car park at Bransholme shopping

Today’s photo shows one of the horse chestnut trees forming the avenue that led from West Park’s main gates off Anlaby Road to an original large heated conservatory that no longer exists. This particular tree has a rectangular hole at the top of its short main truck (horse chestnuts normally have low sturdy main trunks).

Recently found a new route. Starting at the eastern end of Victoria Dock Village and followed an often done before wide surfaced path north towards Hedon Road. Benefits from a linear embankment on the west side and large warehouses behind security fence the other. The embankment is rich in wild plants and shrubs. Instead of

Although today’s photo shows part of plane tree in the foreground (see the seed pods that have clung on over winter) the focus of today’s blog is the garden area beyond, only part of which is visible. A detailed O.S. map of the late 1920s shows this area of the original park as being a

This photo of a young plane tree in Minster Square was taken a couple of years ago. As far as I know Andrew Marvell (see above) made no reference to plane trees in his writings; this not surprising as plane trees are not native and were only introduced to Britain roughly when Marvell was alive,