All Discussions Tagged 'street trees' - Harringay online2024-03-29T14:55:51Zhttps://harringayonline.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=street+trees&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTrees of Harringay: Pairs of Pears on Green Lanestag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-20:844301:Topic:15684802024-03-20T14:15:08.912ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>Just a week after the <a href="https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/trees-of-harringay-cherry-blossom-time-blossomwatch" rel="noopener" target="_blank">pink (and pinky white) blossom</a> of the cherry trees, the white froth of ornamental pear trees is erupting along Green Lanes.</p>
<p>Here's one by Railway Fields <br></br><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402811680?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402811680?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="350"></img></a> I particularly like the pairs of…</p>
<p>Just a week after the <a href="https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/trees-of-harringay-cherry-blossom-time-blossomwatch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pink (and pinky white) blossom</a> of the cherry trees, the white froth of ornamental pear trees is erupting along Green Lanes.</p>
<p>Here's one by Railway Fields <br/><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402811680?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402811680?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="350" class="align-center"/></a> I particularly like the pairs of trees at the entrance to a couple of the Gardens roads</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402812472?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402812472?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="350" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Chesterfield Gardens</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Kimberley Gardens</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hope you are enjoying hanami on your street </span></p> Trees of Harringay: A pair of little magnolias at the bottom of Cavendishtag:harringayonline.com,2024-02-29:844301:Topic:15666442024-02-29T15:22:51.903ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>At this time of year, I like to keep my eyes open for the first magnolia buds. Magnolias are such strange and beautiful trees. It's curious to think that these trees evolved 95 million years ago during the Cretaceous period before bees evolved and co-existed with the dinosaurs. They were pollinated by ancient insects, also still with us, that we now call beetles.</p>
<p>They have lovely soft furry buds which erupt into brightly coloured flowers. There's a pair of small magnolia street trees…</p>
<p>At this time of year, I like to keep my eyes open for the first magnolia buds. Magnolias are such strange and beautiful trees. It's curious to think that these trees evolved 95 million years ago during the Cretaceous period before bees evolved and co-existed with the dinosaurs. They were pollinated by ancient insects, also still with us, that we now call beetles.</p>
<p>They have lovely soft furry buds which erupt into brightly coloured flowers. There's a pair of small magnolia street trees that I like to make a bee-line, or should that be a beetle-line to, at this time of year at the bottom of Cavendish standing between Dostlar<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12391458260?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12391458260?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="250" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p>and The Dusty Knuckle</p>
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<p>Keep an eye on them this month as you walk on Green Lanes as soon this little pair will be full of deep pink flowers</p>
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<p>Why not share your pictures of magnolia trees where you are in the comments?</p> Susan Hill on Street Treestag:harringayonline.com,2023-05-19:844301:Topic:15395192023-05-19T15:50:31.998ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p class="p1">Susan Hill talks about the value of street trees in cities</p>
<p class="p1">"…<em>London or other city streets - Oxford and Norwich are good examples - lined with wonderful mature trees and wonder about that, because the Victorians planted these and they are almost past their sell-by dates. Councils are forever closing roads to take down dangerous trees, but when they are all gone, how altered will our urban street landscapes be. Trees are green lungs for cities and shelter for…</em></p>
<p class="p1">Susan Hill talks about the value of street trees in cities</p>
<p class="p1">"…<em>London or other city streets - Oxford and Norwich are good examples - lined with wonderful mature trees and wonder about that, because the Victorians planted these and they are almost past their sell-by dates. Councils are forever closing roads to take down dangerous trees, but when they are all gone, how altered will our urban street landscapes be. Trees are green lungs for cities and shelter for birds and insect life. And beautiful. How many children never go near the country, but walk to school past trees that are bare, then in bud, in leaf, thick and heavily green through the summer holidays, but, as the new school year starts, begin to turn and then fall conkers. Ash keys. These trees could be their introduction to the natural cycle, but if we don't plant more - and I see no evidence that we are doing so -the streets will be bleak</em>."</p>
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<p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Warham Road, March 2023</span></p> The Silver Wattle in Pemberton Road is in blossom #hanamitag:harringayonline.com,2023-02-15:844301:Topic:15282812023-02-15T11:55:29.450ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>The beautiful Silver Wattle (Acacia dealbata) in Pemberton Road by the Harringay Passage is in blossom and it is wonderful.…</p>
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<p>The beautiful Silver Wattle (Acacia dealbata) in Pemberton Road by the Harringay Passage is in blossom and it is wonderful.</p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10967722263?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10967722263?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="350" class="align-center"/></a></p> Urban Trees: Masters of Survivaltag:harringayonline.com,2019-06-06:844301:Topic:11724782019-06-06T15:15:29.071ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>Lovely little animation about Hamburg (in English) about the value that street trees bring to our towns and cities.</p>
<p>"They are the green heart of our city"</p>
<p>Watch on YouTube <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/j7hEBaCkT8E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></strong></span></p>
<p>Lovely little animation about Hamburg (in English) about the value that street trees bring to our towns and cities.</p>
<p>"They are the green heart of our city"</p>
<p>Watch on YouTube <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/j7hEBaCkT8E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></strong></span></p> New Wightman Road Trees Need Our Helptag:harringayonline.com,2019-06-01:844301:Topic:11717822019-06-01T11:32:36.402ZNick G-Thttps://harringayonline.com/profile/NicholasGriffinTorrington
<p>It's the first day of summer and the new trees just planted on Wightman are already stressed.</p>
<p>If only they could have been planted next season when the risk of loosing the trees decreases.</p>
<p>If you live near a tree could you please pour a bucket of water into the black pipe beside the tree to help with their survival - we can't rely on the council alone who's Tree and Nature Conservation team are very stretched.</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
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<p>It's the first day of summer and the new trees just planted on Wightman are already stressed.</p>
<p>If only they could have been planted next season when the risk of loosing the trees decreases.</p>
<p>If you live near a tree could you please pour a bucket of water into the black pipe beside the tree to help with their survival - we can't rely on the council alone who's Tree and Nature Conservation team are very stretched.</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
<p></p> In praise of magnificent and ancient magnolia treestag:harringayonline.com,2019-03-14:844301:Topic:11548282019-03-14T18:05:24.880ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>In flower at the moment, and dotted about Harringay as street trees, is the other worldly and beautiful magnolia tree.</p>
<p>One of the most ancient of flowering trees at around 95 million years old, it evolved before bees, so it was mainly pollinated by beetles hence the tough petals of the goblet bloom and its star-shaped flowers.</p>
<p>Below is a quick photo study of a small magnolia at the bottom of Cavendish but when you see a large one of these flowering (there used to be one on…</p>
<p>In flower at the moment, and dotted about Harringay as street trees, is the other worldly and beautiful magnolia tree.</p>
<p>One of the most ancient of flowering trees at around 95 million years old, it evolved before bees, so it was mainly pollinated by beetles hence the tough petals of the goblet bloom and its star-shaped flowers.</p>
<p>Below is a quick photo study of a small magnolia at the bottom of Cavendish but when you see a large one of these flowering (there used to be one on Seymour as I recall) it is quite a heart-stopping moment, all the more so if you consider that this is a tree that was part of a pre-historic landscape. As Robert Macfarlane puts it "they bloom both in spring time and in deep time"<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1422423368?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1422423368?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="550" class="align-center"/></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1422442639?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1422442639?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="550" class="align-center"/></a></p> The winter flowering cherry of Seymour Roadtag:harringayonline.com,2018-11-15:844301:Topic:11337212018-11-15T11:34:59.670ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>I've always been a little puzzled by one tree in Seymour Road that seemed to come into blossom in the middle of winter. Was this a sign of milder winters? Climate change in action?</p>
<p>This year, it has pink blossom on it before its autumn leaves have even dropped.</p>
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<p>So I asked the street tree expert Paul Wood, who tweets as @The…</p>
<p>I've always been a little puzzled by one tree in Seymour Road that seemed to come into blossom in the middle of winter. Was this a sign of milder winters? Climate change in action?</p>
<p>This year, it has pink blossom on it before its autumn leaves have even dropped.</p>
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<p>So I asked the street tree expert Paul Wood, who tweets as @The StreetTree.</p>
<p>I need not have worried that this tree's behaviour was a sign of milder winters messing with the seasons. This is a winter flowering cherry, <em>Prunus x subhirtella,</em> which flowers from November through to April, and which has been specially cultivated in Japan simply because humans wanted something pretty to look at in the winter months. </p>
<p>An effect I think they have achieved. </p>
<p>To find out more about this street tree, click through to Paul's blog, <a href="https://thestreettree.com/2018/03/04/winter-flowering-cherry-the-great-deceiver/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Street Tree</a></p> Goodbye Rowan treetag:harringayonline.com,2018-11-05:844301:Topic:11315042018-11-05T11:43:39.375ZMichael Andersonhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/17bathgate
<p>Taken down from outside our house this morning. The poor thing was on its last legs - a strong gust of wind and it would have been flat out on the road</p>
<p>Going</p>
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<p>Gone…</p>
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<p>Taken down from outside our house this morning. The poor thing was on its last legs - a strong gust of wind and it would have been flat out on the road</p>
<p>Going</p>
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<p>Gone</p>
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<p></p> Give street trees some spacetag:harringayonline.com,2018-01-25:844301:Topic:10529542018-01-25T20:13:31.549ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>A new study by Columbia University has concluded that, if we want trees to do their "job" properly, we need to give them some space.</p>
<p>It seems that <span>when people keep walking all over a tree’s personal space, the dirt gets compacted and becomes less porous, making it harder for the ground and the tree to sop up rain. The addition of simple fences can, in theory, prevent this from happening.…</span></p>
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<p>A new study by Columbia University has concluded that, if we want trees to do their "job" properly, we need to give them some space.</p>
<p>It seems that <span>when people keep walking all over a tree’s personal space, the dirt gets compacted and becomes less porous, making it harder for the ground and the tree to sop up rain. The addition of simple fences can, in theory, prevent this from happening.</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2058765896?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="450" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2058765896?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="450" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p><span>So it seems guerrilla gardeners who fence and manage a space around a tree have the right idea and the council contractors that are so fond of Tarmacking around a tree are most definitely not doing the tree or the street any favours. </span></p>
<p><span>Although this article looks at NYC, giving trees room to breathe surely applies to any urban environment.</span></p>
<p><span>Read more here: <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/give-trees-some-space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Give Trees Some Space</a></span></p>
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