Recently the Mayor’s office published this map of all the street trees in London – colour coded. This dendrophile’s wet dream covers all of London but if you put your postcode in the top-right corner then you can zoom in … Continue reading →
We couldn’t avoid the bandwagon entirely… here’s a fantastic photo of an “over-foliaged” (it’s a technical aboreal term) monster Acacia tree on Fortune Green Road sent in by Louise O’Keefe.
Continue reading →If you’re a regular visitor to Fortune Green, you might have noticed the green has lost a few trees over the past months, some due to storm damage, some due to disease. Yesterday, Camden contractors replaced some of the missing … Continue reading →
Camden council, clearly stumped by how to solve the continuing problem of litter in our streets, appears to have decided to combine its tree-removal program with an increase in the number of bins. Maybe this Broadhurst Gardens “bin” is the … Continue reading →
The campaign to save the Ballymore trees may have failed in its immediate aim. However, Camden has agreed – after much badgering – to slap a Tree Preservation Order (a TPO) on the largest sycamore that falls on Network Rail’s … Continue reading →
This morning the trees on the Ballymore site, which have been the subject of so much protest, are being felled. Cut logs are being piled up and a woodchipper is making short work of the spindly branches. The petition that … Continue reading →
A small group of about a dozen people stood in the weak winter sunshine this morning protesting about the removal of the trees on Ballymore’s West Hampstead Square site. It had been described as a “vigil”, but that would really … Continue reading →
As all bright schoolchildren know, King Canute didn’t believe his regal powers could stop the tide. In fact, he got his feet wet precisely to prove this point to his obsequious courtiers. Still, to this day “Canute-like” is used to … Continue reading →
The saga of the trees on and around the West Hampstead Square site drags on. The campaigners continue to pester Camden to slap preservation orders on those trees growing by the Overground line that are off the Ballymore site, but … Continue reading →
It’s been quiet of late on the Ballymore building site at West Hampstead Square. This has meant a stay of execution for the trees that have caused so much heated debate over the past couple of months. Emma Thompson at … Continue reading →
