A Hackney street tree walk with London Street Trees' Paul Wood
Paul Wood, author of London’s Street Trees and the just-published London Is a Forest (Quadrille) joined the London Borough of Hackney’s tree officer Rupert Bentley Walls to lead a walk around the streets of Clapton to appreciate the amazing diversity of species Rupert and his team have planted around this ‘urban arboretum’. Organised by councillor Vincent Stops, the walk attracted a turnout over over 40 people, all of whom were amazed to be shown by Rupert magnolias, dogwoods, laburnum/broom grafts (flowering different colours on alternate sides of the tree), numerous rare species of birch, and a Mongolian lime - amongst others. Here the party gathers at the walk’s end opposite the Elderfield pub beneath a Kentucky Coffee Tree.