149 Lowry’s Tree

A vast, billowing poplar is an iconic feature of Salford’s oldest park.

Exciting news! I will be live on BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning, Monday 27th May.

Tune in at 7:45AM to catch me talking trees on the sofa at Salford Quays, just a 40 minute hike, across some very busy roads, from today’s magnificent tree.

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L. S. Lowry was enrolled in evening courses at the Salford Technical Institute overlooking Peel Park, the subject of many of his lesser-known paintings and drawings. It is home to several trees dating from the park’s opening that he certainly would have known. The most eye-catching is a poplar just south of the Brotherton statue, which you might be able to glimpse in Lowry’s 1944 painting ‘Peel Park’.

Species details

Hybrid black poplar
Populus × canadensis

Where to find it

Peel Park, The Crescent, Salford M5 4WU
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Another Lowry, Bandstand, Peel Park, Salford via WikiArt features, I think, our poplar tree.

Other poplars

96. Ryebank Aspen

6. Newtown Black Poplar