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

The skies cleared, the sun shone, the rain stopped and the wind dropped for just long enough in March and early April to give our street trees the perfect start to spring. Every drop of rain, every ray of sunshine, every extra minute of daylight, every degree of warmth nourishes and powers those little leaf and flower buds. The annual blossom spectacle began, as always, in late February with the ever-reliable cherry plums (Prunus cerasifera) , followed closely by the magnolia