Lots more info. on Bishop's Palace Garden at https://www.treesinchi.org/bishops-palace-garden and you'll probably enjoy the Sussex Gardens Trust Article (pdf linked from https://www.treesinchi.org/bishops-palace-garden/bpg---history , which page I realise I haven't finished writing up yet). It mentions an even rarer "Palace Garden" lime hybrid that didn't formally get named; and a circa 300-year-old box tree that was infested with box tree moth for the first time last year.
Our St Richard's hospital has a lovely Camperdown Elm, if you need another tree ... (Chichester District Council did have a better one, but it was damaged and it looks like the beetle got in - it's currently limping on).
Thank you Paula, I must go and have a look for that Camperdown elm next time I'm in the area. I also saw a fabulous old mulberry in one of the buildings next to the Cathedral which I wonder if you have noticed?
Rough location for the hospital Camperdown is W3W ///sport.legend.actual (the mullered CDC one is at ///backup.spray.plays ).
BPG has a mulberry, but I've not noticed another from the public realm. There's a wonderful one in the garden of the Chantry (I've only visited once): https://treezilla.org/record/22622616
Please let us know when you visit - as volunteer Tree Wardens in the West Sussex Tree Warden Network are organised by civic parish, our area is mostly urban (Chichester City Council). I found a redwood hiding in plain sight recently (looking uncharacteristic as it's had its top cut off) and there's a cork oak in a glade at Graylingwell that's getting rather shaded. (Victorian landscaped Asylums set in parkland and subsequently developed as housing estates are presumably rich pickings for urban tree hunting.)
Very much enjoying your trees, great companions as I am reading Oliver Rackham’s The History of the Countryside and his segment on trees and woodlands and forests, with side notes from wife as she shares reports from her friend the dendochronologist in Scotland.
Thank you Robert. I am a big fan of Rackham's work, such great insights, and he asked all the questions I wanted to ask (and some I never knew I wanted to ask!)
I’ve not come across this cultivar, that I know, but its form makes me wonder whether the many I’ve assumed from a distance to be Caucasian elm may not be!
What a marvelous tree! It has an aspiring look - reaching for the sun. In that it seem somehow active, unlike many, more sedate trees. And so young too!
You've been in my neck of the (urban) woods! (I'm a volunteer Chichester Tree Warden.)
There's actually another Lobel at https://www.treesinchi.org/chichester-tree-trail#TT26HybridDutchElmonNorthWallsWalk (it suckers vigorously).
Lots more info. on Bishop's Palace Garden at https://www.treesinchi.org/bishops-palace-garden and you'll probably enjoy the Sussex Gardens Trust Article (pdf linked from https://www.treesinchi.org/bishops-palace-garden/bpg---history , which page I realise I haven't finished writing up yet). It mentions an even rarer "Palace Garden" lime hybrid that didn't formally get named; and a circa 300-year-old box tree that was infested with box tree moth for the first time last year.
Our St Richard's hospital has a lovely Camperdown Elm, if you need another tree ... (Chichester District Council did have a better one, but it was damaged and it looks like the beetle got in - it's currently limping on).
Thank you Paula, I must go and have a look for that Camperdown elm next time I'm in the area. I also saw a fabulous old mulberry in one of the buildings next to the Cathedral which I wonder if you have noticed?
Rough location for the hospital Camperdown is W3W ///sport.legend.actual (the mullered CDC one is at ///backup.spray.plays ).
BPG has a mulberry, but I've not noticed another from the public realm. There's a wonderful one in the garden of the Chantry (I've only visited once): https://treezilla.org/record/22622616
Please let us know when you visit - as volunteer Tree Wardens in the West Sussex Tree Warden Network are organised by civic parish, our area is mostly urban (Chichester City Council). I found a redwood hiding in plain sight recently (looking uncharacteristic as it's had its top cut off) and there's a cork oak in a glade at Graylingwell that's getting rather shaded. (Victorian landscaped Asylums set in parkland and subsequently developed as housing estates are presumably rich pickings for urban tree hunting.)
Very much enjoying your trees, great companions as I am reading Oliver Rackham’s The History of the Countryside and his segment on trees and woodlands and forests, with side notes from wife as she shares reports from her friend the dendochronologist in Scotland.
Thank you Robert. I am a big fan of Rackham's work, such great insights, and he asked all the questions I wanted to ask (and some I never knew I wanted to ask!)
I’ve not come across this cultivar, that I know, but its form makes me wonder whether the many I’ve assumed from a distance to be Caucasian elm may not be!
I wouldn’t like to hazard a guess as to which species you have seen, they are both very uncommon!
What a marvelous tree! It has an aspiring look - reaching for the sun. In that it seem somehow active, unlike many, more sedate trees. And so young too!
Definitely a thrusting young thing!