Welcome to Part 2 of our in-depth look at the new trees delivered in the 2025/26 planting season. In Part 1 we covered taxonomy (the science of classifying trees) and listed our new saplings by numbers: how many new plantings there were for each street in Herne Hill, how many of each species were planted, and which species were climate-safe. Below we're listing each tree by its scientific niche: the wide family it belongs to, its narrower genus, or group of related trees, its

In this blog Herne Hill Tree Watch is doing a little bit of amateur phenology. That's the science of changes that plants and animals...

The first week of July saw the council’s contractors still out planting trees that should have been in place by the end March. Now, in...

After an unpredictable May the hot weather finally arrived in mid-June. This is a dangerous time of year for our youngest trees,...

After a stormy winter, early spring in Herne Hill brought perfect growing weather. In the last two weeks of March our young trees had...

It’s a strange experience, walking our streets during this frosty January with none of the familiar leaves, fruit or flowers on the...