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parksr4people.bsky.social @parksr4people.bsky.social · 6h

Love your park? Come along & get an update at The Friends of Finsbury Park AGM; join in & share your views on Thurs 23rd Oct: Finsbury Park Trust, 225-229 Seven Sisters Rd N4 2DA. All welcome! Pls repost 🤗
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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 4h

Over the last 10 years, from your TiCL and social media posts, I’ve been developing a FREE, live, map and App guide to The Greatest Trees in Britain 🤩

The #GreatTrees of Britain #GTOB 🌳🏆 🇬🇧

#GreatTreesof #Britain

See them HERE (and download the new TiCL View App) NOW

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CPRE London @cprelondon.bsky.social · Aug 27

London's #Parks, #PlayingFields and #GreenBelt are coming under increasing threat. Today, we've launched a new free guide on how to set up and run a successful grassroots campaign to protect #GreenSpaces.
www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/new-gui...
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New guide to protecting green spaces launched

CPRE London is working to enhance, promote and protect London's green spaces. Love London's beautiful green spaces? Find out more and get involved.

www.cprelondon.org.uk

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 1d

There is a related species, Pemphigus protospirae, that makes similar but longer spiral galls (influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Pemp...) I wonder if that is the specific one and people have confused the two. It’s rarer - I’ve not found it yet.

Pemphigus protospirae (Poplar polyspiral gall aphid): identification, images, ecology, control

Pemphigus protospirae (Poplar polyspiral gall aphid). Identification, biology, distribution, host plants, natural enemies, damage caused. Creative commons images.

influentialpoints.com

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 1d

Ah, thanks! - pity! Admittedly, I’ve seen them on Lombardy poplar too … but I find them rather easier to identify!

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Hugh Williamson @hughwilliamson.bsky.social · 1d

Jon Stokes in his excellnet new book for the Tree Council says spiral galls are indeed an indicator of native Black Poplar @ticl.me

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Sue Quick @sequick.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone #ForestResearch or other research organisations able to confirm? #Observatree would like be to know also...🧪

TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 1d

Yesterday, I was told that the presence of this gall helps distinguish a native from a hybrid black poplar …

Please tell me that it’s true

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 1d

Yesterday, I was told that the presence of this gall helps distinguish a native from a hybrid black poplar …

Please tell me that it’s true

@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@galling.bsky.social
@kitenet.bsky.social

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 1d

#FoodPoverty 🇺🇸?

Don’t worry …

You’ve developed the world’s most advanced #bakery

TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 2d

Have you seen the Keaki in Beddington Park?

It’s got stunning bark and will have wonderful Autumn foliage right now 🍂

Find it here, and lots of other interesting trees on the #treetrail in #BeddingtonPark

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(the FREE new TiCL View App will help you explore)

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 3d

Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead’

King Richard II 1.3.58

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · May 11

The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree.
O 4.3
#ShakespeareSunday

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Sim Elliott @sim-elliott.bsky.social · Aug 2

This is the "grandparent" Yew at Kingley Vale NNR with its two generations of layered "children" and "grandchildren" yews. The ancient yews of the famous Yew Grove have mostly reproduced by vegetative layering; but the Yews covering the downs on the scarp slopes seem seeds propagated. .

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 7d

Windrush square and The Tate Plane looking stunning yesterday afternoon 🤩

You can see why it’s considered one of the Great Trees of London #GTOL 🏆🌳

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#GreatTreesof #London

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 9d

…. this one transports you to the Great Trees of London #GTOL

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 10d

And to the skirts of this wild wood he came.

As You Like It 5.4.103

#ShakespeareSunday

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 11d

Nothing gold can stay

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

@wandsworthpark.bsky.social

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 12d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Forestry England buys land near Ashford in Kent for new woodland

The 66-hectare (0.25 square miles) plot of land is 10 miles (16.1km) west of Ashford, near Smarden.

www.bbc.co.uk

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 13d

They showed me this magnificent Headache tree (Umbellularia californica) …

It’s the best example of its kind in London - and your interest since on TiCL has made it one of the Great Trees of London 🏆🌳 #GTOL

Follow the link to the #GreatTreesof #London map

ticl.me/the-great-tr...

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 13d

They showed me this magnificent Headache tree (Umbellularia californica) …

It’s the best example of its kind in London - and your interest since on TiCL has made it one of the Great Trees of London 🏆🌳 #GTOL

Follow the link to the #GreatTreesof #London map

ticl.me/the-great-tr...

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 14d

The #12trees they showed me are still standing and lovelier than ever.

I dedicate this trail to them.

ticl.me/mertons-love...

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 14d

The #12trees they showed me are still standing and lovelier than ever.

I dedicate this trail to them.

ticl.me/mertons-love...

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 14d

… and he wonders why?

TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 15d

In memory of Jane Plant, Merton Tree Warden, who, with David Lofthouse, Arboricultural Manager @mertoncouncil.bsky.social introduced me to Merton’s loveliest trees including this magnificent #LondonPlane in Ravensbury Park in 2017

#thicktrunktuesday

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A Tree Bailey @audrey-bailey.bsky.social · 17d

Gingko! There's a beautiful gingko tree at the bottom of a hill near the rail station in Hereford. It's one of my favourites, and is looking magnificent now in it's Autumnal splendour.😀

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 17d

To bury so much gold under a tree

Titus Andronicus 2.3.2

#ShakespeareSunday

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