This year's hot and dry spring and summer have put our street trees under enormous stress and we're now seeing their response: a 'false...

It's the first day of August, and the heavy rains of the past few weeks have finally broken the long heatwave. For some of our young...

As you might imagine, the work involved in compiling and updating the guides to every tree on every street in the Southwark half of...

Tree watching is in some ways like any collector's hobby: birdwatching, trainspotting, stamp collecting or even recipe hoarding. The more...

We're stepping out of Herne Hill for this blog, and making our way to the other end of the borough to have a look at a very special tree....

Trees, like people, die for any number of reasons but old age is the obvious one. 'Old' can mean just a few decades for small trees, but...