Collins Tree Guide

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With Vegetative Key to the British Flora, the aim of the authors is to “enable reliable identification at any stage of growth”. A reference tool for all those who have a passion for trees or who work in tree-related professions.

A useful book that covers all the most common trees and some rarities that are sold from nurseries and garden centres in the UK and also includes information about cultivation and size.A great introductory guide to native and common naturalised trees with good simple keys to leaves, twigs and cones. Alan continued measuring and recording trees on his hand written card index completing records of over 100,000 trees before his death in 1995.

Quite simply a stunning work, this book depicts 144 detailed watercolours and descriptions of a wide range of different apples from Beauty of Bath to Egremont Russet. Nurseries now sup- ply, and gardeners and local authorities plant, a continually increasing range of trees, while the active recording and measuring of them - a pursuit largely inspired by Alan Mitchell's own life-work continues to reveal a cornucopia of rarities in unlikely places. Published in association with The Tree Council, this book contains a wealth of essential information about native trees, including where different trees grow naturally, the insects, fungi and animals supported by them, the traditional beliefs connected to them, how they are managed and what products are obtained from them. Heads the internationally renowned Arabella Lennox-Boyd Landscape Design practice which has been designing landscapes around the world for over 40 years. His travels enabled him to find and re-measure trees recorded by JC Loudon in the 1800's, Elwes and Henry 1906-1913, the 1890 and 1930 Conifer Conference Reports by the Royal Horticultural Society and the more recent work of the Hon.

It answers a wide range of important questions about trees and conveys a wealth of useful information. The late Alan Mitchell (1922-1995) was an internationally acclaimed dendrologist who came to public notice when his book A Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe was first published by Collins in 1974.

David supports the Trustees and is the Tree Register database manager and volunteer network co-ordinator. The former Prince of Wales has a wide variety of interests, enjoys gardening, sports and the performing arts and painting in watercolours.Within each tree family there is a list of key species and a guide to the most important features to look for when identifying a particular tree from that family. The introduction contains illustrations of the main leaves, buds, and firs you are likely to find, which also provide the starting point for identification by leading you to a 'key' species. Its predecessor, the late Alan Mitchell's A Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe (1974), was the first such guide to all trees thought likely to be found outside specialist collections. Victoria Schilling worked alongside Alan Mitchell as assistant dendrologist at Alice Holt for many years before Alan retired and together they set up the tree consultancy Green Scene.