This is the annual report (2020) of the Wyre Forest Study Group. Wyre Forest is an ancient landscape, the fauna and flora of which have been subject to scientific scrutiny for many years. On the cover is a drawing of … Continue reading
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The distribution of the small populations of recently identified trees would seem to indicate that the True Service Tree in Britain is at the limit of its range. All these trees grow, in often stunted forms, in rough ground on … Continue reading
Trees are the longest-lived and, apart from certain subterranean fungal growths, the largest organisms on Earth. Human relationships with them are many and varied and trees in turn connect, directly or indirectly, with all aspects of Nature. John Ruskin, the … Continue reading
The Durham Wildlife Trust is preparing to publish, as a companion to its distinguished volume on Teesdale, a book on Weardale. Ewan was asked to produce some field sketches which encapsulate the nature and character of Weardale. … Continue reading
On the strength of one tree, discovered in 1678, growing in a remote part of the Forest of Wyre, the True Service was admitted somewhat controversially on to the British list. It was celebrated as the ‘Whitty Pear’, and progeny … Continue reading
Established as a utopian experiment by William Mills in 1825, Yellow Springs village followed directly from the foundation of New Harmony, Indiana, by Robert Owen, the British philanthropist from New Lanark. Yellow Springs is now a large arts community with … Continue reading
“The most fortunate situation”: The Story of York’s Museum Gardens by Peter Hogarth and Ewan Anderson (2018) The history of York is the history of England and the history of the Museum Gardens is the history of York. From a … Continue reading
For residential development, this magnificent Southern Magnolia at Sidmouth Aboretum is to be felled. At St Edmund Hall, this Southern Magnolia, which had dominated the front quadrangle for the post-war period, had to be removed as it was damaging the … Continue reading
Long considered extinct in Britain, two Wentworth Elms were discovered in the grounds of Holyrood Palace, during a survey by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, in 2016. They are thought to have been planted in about 1909. … Continue reading
On the slopes at the upper end of Borrowdale in the Lake District are three Yew Trees. They were visited by Wordsworth before one was destroyed in a storm in 1803. He penned the poem ‘Yew-Trees’ in which he described … Continue reading