jwade

Acer griseum indeed. Lovely tree, infact all of the trifoliate maples are lovely - particularly Acer triflorum (three flowered maple). The autumnul colour is nice, but the bark isn't as rich and exfoliated as paperbark maple.

May just be a natural thing, I know that monkey puzzles tend to have a genetic trait of retaining dead foliage for some time before dropping (like cunninghamia and other connies) - as they mature they gradually start to shed thier lower branches giving them that characteristic 'mushroom' shaped canopy.

Yep, I'd either say it's s. japonica (scholar/pagoda tree) or perhaps even cladrastis sinensis, as thats one that hardly seems to show flowers except in long warm summers (similar to pagoda tree).

Nope, disregard what I previously stated (toona) it's not that sp.

I'd agree that it's a Catalpa species, the elongated drip tip suggests the rather rarer Catalpa fargesii forma duclouxii Maybe? Does it have any flower trusses? Being in an arboretum it could be one of the more unusual Catalpas (ie non american species). Also agree on the Acer davidii (or one of it's variants).

Yep, definately dawn redwood, quite an easy species to root from cuttings, it's a species that actually does really well in moist/wetter soils or by a lake/pond as an alternative to Taxodium distichum (swam cypress) as in it's native habitat grows in these conditions - infact the chinese call it a 'water fir'. Often see these trees with the lower branches hacked off - looking terrible as the whole idea of the tree is that the branches are fully furnished to ground level. It's one of those fossil trees that was lost to botany, rediscovered in the 40's and distributed widely, I think the oldest one planted outdoors in the UK is in the Cambridge BG if I remember correctly.

and apparently she's a mean drummer..

Fairly common garden centre shrub/small tree - can be quite attractive when in flower - although it is grown for the calyces and the small blueish fruit. The foliage smells really horrid when crushed btw.

Possible Clerodendron trichotomum.. Glorybower.

Yep, to be honest I'd agree with both of you, could be either Acer pensylvanicum, or rufinerve - It's gonna be in the snake bark maple section of maples - maybe a shot of the bark and tree habit? The thing is with these maples, sometimes the lobing can be quite variable.

Gleditsia triacanthos - now theres a tree I don't ever want to pick up brash from ever again, rather horrid spikes - also mature Kalopanax septemlobus has some mean spikes on the main stem.

That is Paulownia tomentosa, otherwise known as Foxglove tree - lovely massive foliage, most often grown in small gardens as a stooled/coppiced specimen as it quickly outgrows small gardens - this way you get massive dinner plate sized foliage but none of the pretty heliotrope foxglove like flowers.

Yeah so did I, I drove past them on my way to pendock and just had to pull over and photograph the grouping - I thought maybe they'd be our scarce native black poplar, but couldn't tell as of yet - maybe I'll go back and do a proper ident - we do have some nice old black poplars around the areas.. Also I think the midlands/worcestershire is a major stronghold for service tree.

Here's a few more... Chinese poplar at Batsford - Populus szechuanica me thinks. A closer inspection of the big Cedrus libani at Croome... A closeup of the venerable Prunus, note the old treehouse that was built in it previously - it still blossoms and fruits profusely, and also has some bud proliferations within the canopy. A Nice Arbutus unedo at the Rosebank gardens, Malvern. Quercus suber at Spetchley, worcs.

I have no idea if he is a member here, but his demomstration was good and his talk gave quite a good insight into managing veteran trees - teetering on the small branches and doing small reductions.. Probably have to be really nimble! I've realised I've messed up the formatting - I'm quite new to this as you can tell. The AOD picture is below:

Just thought I'd do my first post in this forum, just various tree pictures I have acumulated over the years. A nice group of poplar pollards, or poplards. A closeup arty shot of said poplard. A beautiful old Yew in a local churchyard, Stanford Bishop - found using the tree register handbook. A wonderfully shaped Prunus avium in the field outside my flat, this is one of many in the local area, probably a remnant of an old cherry orchard. There is another one in the field that has collapsed and had a brown rot. Another nice old Yew, in the churchyard at Acton beauchamp, this one is almost an empty shell, showing very little green canopy left. Also listed in the Tree Register guide. Same Yew, different angle. A pheonix regen Horse Chestnut, off the beaten track at Croome. The arb crew, checking out another large Horse Chestnut adjacent to the pheonix regen - Croome Park. A nice picture of bleeding lesions on Oak, a documented case of AOD at the National Trust Brockhampton, Bromyard - which is just down the road from me... Young climber on Castanea sativa at Goodnestone Park, Kent. A notable tree. One for the fung hunters, a fungi that attacks both pyrus and juniperus (alternate hostings) the name escapes me? Appears at this time of the year on juniper, and then later on pear as a pear rust. A chap named sean demo'ing some coronet cutting/natural fracture pruning - Neville Fay from TWEP came and did a talk also - quite informative.

Or malus sp. possibly?

The Sorbus thibetica 'john mitchell' has rounded larger foliage and a darker upper surface - don't often see big nice ones of these. It's probably the 'Lutescens' variety of aria.

Cydonia species? (Quince)

Could well be a sport from the original root stock? Maybe a st. julien rootstock. Either that or as suggested before a wild plum.

I'm still thinking quince, it looks thorny and tangly, which is the habit. The anthers also look as though they come from chaenomeles japonica.

First one looks like a pink flowering chaenomeles sp. Which is a type of bushy quince. Unsure on the second one, more detailed picture is probably needed.

Yep - thats the one. An unusual spiky tree.

Try a guess with this one, at a local garden I work at... Species and family if you will. Clue - There used to be a champion of it's kind at Croome Landscape Park, Worcestershire, but I was told it since died from soil contamination...