Some research on the boundary-less nature of Trees for Peterborough Environment City Trust 2016/2017

1. A Modest Criticism of
Environmental Misappropriation
Douglas Thompson
www.darkwaterarts.com

2. “Conkers is a
traditional children's
game in Britain and
Ireland played using
the seeds of horse
chestnut trees—the
name 'conker' is also
applied to the seed
and to the tree
itself.”
• The first mention of the
game is in Robert Southey's
memoirs published in 1821
• The first recorded game of
Conkers using horse
chestnuts was on the Isle of
Wight in 1848
• The World Conker
Championships (WCC) are
held annually on the
second Sunday in
October[1] in the county of
Northamptonshire,
England.

3. This tall tree is indigenous to the Balkans. It
was brought from Constantinople and
introduced into France in 1615.
“Aesculus hippocastanum” is native to a
small area in the Pindus Mountains mixed
forests and Balkan mixed forests of South
East Europe.
The tree’s flower is the symbol of the city of
Kiev, capital of Ukraine.

4. John Tradescant the Younger discovered
the tree in Vauxhall Gardens in London in
the mid-17th century.
It is London's most common tree and can
grow to 35m and live several hundred
years
London plane copes well with pollution
and compacted soils and is often found
growing on streets and city parks.

5. ▪ The London Plane is known by another title in
Spain and the following is a translated quote
from Spanish Wikipedia:
▪ “The shade banana has long been considered a hybrid
origin of the cross between the parents Platanus
occidentalis and Platanus orientalis ; Despite that, their
origin is not clear, which some locate in London and
others in Spain , and even in hybrid forms or not,
natural or cultivated, of Turkey ;The issue has not been
investigated with modern molecular techniques.
Consequently, even their nomenclature is a matter of
discussion and a reason why the Anglo-Saxon authors
do not admit the priority of the name that is used
here.”
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/

6. Common lime is a deciduous broadleaf tree,
native to the UK and parts of Europe.
Common name: common lime
Scientific name:Tilia x europaea
Family: Malvaceae
UK provenance: native
Interesting fact: during the war lime blossom
was used to make a soothing tea.

7. ▪ In old Slavic mythology, the linden (lipa, as called in
all Slavic languages) was considered a sacred tree.
Particularly in Poland, many villages have a name
"Święta Lipka" (or similar), which literally means
"Holy Lime".
▪ To this day, the tree is a national emblem of the
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and
Lusatia.
▪ Lipa gave name to the traditional Slavic name for
the month of June (Croatian, lipanj) or July (Polish,
lipiec, Ukrainian "lypen'/липень").
▪ It is also the root for the German city of Leipzig,
taken from the Sorbian name lipsk.The Croatian
currency, kuna, consists of 100 lipa (Tilia).

8. .
• Common beech is a large, deciduous tree,
native to southern England and South
Wales.
• Common name: common beech, European
beech
• UK provenance: native
• Interesting fact: beech can live for
hundreds of years with coppiced stands
living for more than 1,000 years.
• Beech is associated with femininity and is
often considered the queen of British trees,
where oak is the king

9. The common European beech grows naturally in
Denmark and southern Norway and Sweden up to about
the 57th – 59th northern latitude.
As a naturally growing forest tree, it marks the
important border between the European deciduous
forest zone and the northern pine forest zone.This
border is important for both wildlife and fauna and
is a sharp line along the Swedish western coast,
which gets broader toward the south.
In Denmark and in Scania, at the southernmost peak of
the Scandinavian peninsula, south-west of the natural
Spruce boundary, it's the most common forest tree.

10. • English oak is arguably the best known
and loved of British native trees. It is
the most common tree species in the
UK, especially in southern and central
British deciduous woods.
• Common name: English oak
• UK provenance: native
• Shakespeare wrote about oaks
• Prince Charles the 1st hid in an oak
tree
• King of British Trees and our national
tree
Bowthorpe Oak in Manthorpe near Bourne,
Lincolnshire, England is perhaps England's oldest oak
tree with an estimated age of over 1,000 years.

11. The Oak is also the national tree of Serbia, Cyprus, Estonia,
France, Germany, Moldova, Romania, Jordan, Latvia,
Lithuania, the United States,Wales, Galicia and Bulgaria.
According to the legend there were 3 brothers –
Lech, Czech and Rus.The lands in which they lived
had become too small for their families so they
decided to search for new ones.
Czech went to the south and founded Czech
Republic, while Rus, who went to the east, founded
Russia.
Lech went to the north and wandered across
vast plains. He and his people decided to rest
nearby an old oak tree when they noticed a
beautiful white eagle that flew over
their heads to perch on its nest.
Having seen the eagle feed its brood, Lech decided
that this must be a good home for for his people.
Thus oak became the national tree of Poland.

12. JMW Turner:
“Now to destruction doom’d thy peaceful grott
Pope’s willow bending to the earth forgot
Save one weak scion by my fostering care
Nursed into life which fell on bracken spare
On the lone bank to mark the spot with pride
Dip the long branches in the rippling tide.”
• Alexander Pope is reputed to have
planted a weeping willow in the
riverside garden of his villa on the bank
of the Thames.

13. Early Chinese cultivar selections include the
original weeping willow, Salix babylonica
'Pendula', in which the branches and twigs
are strongly pendulous, which was
presumably spread along ancient trade
routes.
These distinctive trees were subsequently
introduced into England from Aleppo in
northern Syria in 1730.