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...

Springtime is finally here. The temperature is slowly rising, blue skies are cautiously returning and the sun is getting just strong...

Just a few days ago we experienced the warmest Armistice Day (November 11) ever, a troubling portent of what lies ahead. “The past eight...

Autumn is well and truly underway, and with the clocks changing in a week’s time winter seems just around the corner. We’ve already got...

The skies are blue and the sun is shining, but it’s been a harsh spring and summer for our street trees. As we write, the Met Office is...

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...

The seasons are changing from late spring to early summer, and even though the weather is still pretty erratic the temperature is...

You may have noticed a lot of new trees appearing on the slopes of Herne Hill this month - not just on the Southwark side but over the...

Autumn has arrived on our doorsteps a couple of weeks early, hastened by the cold, sunny spring and the wet summer. The liquidambars...

The past couple of weeks have really brought home the power and immediacy of global heating. We've seen torrential rainfall here,...

We’ve had a superb autumn show on the streets of Herne Hill, and while the heavy rain and strong winds of late October have stripped away...