Trees and health benefits - BBC 2 8pm

[Paul Barton]

Tonight's 'trust me I'm a doctor' on BBC 2 has a feature about trees importance in public health and pollution. Should be interesting...wonder if any arbs will be on it.

[Sylvia]

No "tree report" I've ever seen with a planning brief/application mentions the particulate pollution reducing capacity of leaves on trees near roads - usually if environmental factors are mentioned it's about noise reduction [not true?] or "amenity"/the look of trees?

A lot of the trees planted by he Highways Agency between us and the A1 in the 1990s were larch - the only deciduous conifer?

Birch have the same deciduousness?

[APC]

the only deciduous conifer?

 

Nah there's a bunch more. I think it's the only native deciduous conifer.

 

Others include dawn redwood, Pseudolarix amabalis (can't remember common name), Taxodium distichum. Gingko too, to an extent.

[woodyguy]

Larch native???

[Sylvia]

Anyway ...I googled evergreen broadleaf and there's quite a few - mostly rare/expensive? but also ligustrum - isn't that good ol' privet left to grow?

[Paul Barton]

I missed the program in the end! Was it good - worth watching on the iplayer?

[j r hartly]

Not sure, but "the great hip hop hoax" is:-)

 

 

 

trees, waves and cakes!!:-)

[skyhuck]

I missed the program in the end! Was it good - worth watching on the iplayer?

 

I enjoyed it, the bit about trees was interesting, they put some small Birch in containers along a busy residential road. Pollution in the homes was measured before the trees and after, there was a significant reduction with the trees in place.