One of the best-known features of the little church of St Milburga in the scattered hamlet of Wixford near Alcester, is the enormous yew tree outside the south porch. In ...
While looking through some documents at the County Record Office recently I came across a somewhat faded photograph of a rather gnarled ancient oak tree. The handwritten caption beneath it ...
Amongst the varied trees of Priory Park, Warwick, there is a particular species that greatly interests me as someone with a vested interest in our ancient geological past. This is ...
Warwickshire Museum holds a seed from the coco de mer palm tree and it is definitely worth a look as it is possibly one of the original specimens making up the ...
Following on from ‘Daffodils in December’ I looked around the garden and found ‘Japonica in January’ also flowering early. (To be honest it was there in December too but that ...
This photo was taken in my back garden on New Year’s Day. And the first of these daffodils opened on December 16th so it really was ‘Daffodils in December’ at ...
All over the county there are many beautiful gardens and parks. For example, you may know of the famous Jephson Gardens in Leamington Spa, and the charming grounds at Charlecote ...
Elms in Warwickshire were a common sight before the 1970s. Indeed, the English elm hedgerow trees were termed the Warwickshire Weed. Tall and distinctive trees, the timber was often used ...
These trees are well grown now, but they hold memories for me. We moved to Brookside Avenue, Wellesbourne in 1967, when I was about two and a half years old. ...
The first woodlands
Following retreat of the last ice sheets, roughly 12,000 years ago, the climate warmed and woodlands spread over much of central England, colonising the rich fertile soils, nourished ...