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Warwickshire's Trees | |
| The treescape of Warwickshire is a highly complex one that reflects several thousand years of human activity plus many natural patterns. In Warwickshire, you can find native trees growing where nature intended, native trees growing where humans planted them, and nearly 600 sorts of introduced tree species from many parts of the world. Some of these introduced species, like Sycamore, have become naturalised and now grow freely from seed independently of human activity. Others only grow where they were planted. Trees vary greatly in age, and the historic layers they produce in the countryside tell us a great deal about how Warwickshire used to look and how it was being used by people. It also helps us to appreciate the way in which new trees were being imported into Britain from other parts of the world. | |
 A Deodar, Jephson Gardens. | |
| The Big Tree Hunt of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull was launched in 2005. We invited people to tell the museum about the interesting trees they knew. It attracted a massive response, and saw the surveying of hundreds of sites. New tree leaflets were produced for locations like Jephson Gardens in Leamington Spa and Abbey Fields in Kenilworth. Many guided tree walks took place, lots of new trees were planted, trees were labelled and two new tree warden groups emerged during this period. Warwickshire folk love their trees! The following attachments represent the results of this activity. They include an image-rich Tree Catalogue with species and site accounts (in five parts), an account of Warwickshire’s veteran trees, and an account of one of our most iconic trees, the Native Black Poplar. A big thank you to everybody who took part. | |
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| Warwickshire Tree Catalogue Part One: Introduction Warwickshire Tree Catalogue Part Two: Conifers etc Warwickshire Tree Calalogue Part Three: Broadleaves Acer-Morus Warwickshire Tree Catalogue Part Four: Broadleaves Nothofagus-Zelkova Warwickshire Tree Catalogue Part Five: Sites Veteran Tree Booklet Warwickshire's Black Poplars Warwickshire Natural History Publications Natural History Homepage |
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