Tottenham Trees
  • Tottenham Trees
    • #HaringeyFavouriteTrees 2022
    • #HaringeyFavouriteTrees 2021
    • Special trees in Tottenham >
      • Bruce Castle Oak >
        • Arboricultural survey
        • Reminiscences of the Bruce Castle Oak
        • Calling Tree >
          • Calling Tree: gallery
      • Mulberry tree
      • Seven Sisters
    • Trees in Tottenham (Galleries) >
      • Tottenham trees (A-D common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (E-K common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (L-R common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (S-Z common name)
    • Trees in Art from Tottenham
    • Trees in Words from Tottenham >
      • Epping
      • It's a Word Thing!
      • Message on leaves
      • Ode from the Oak
      • Of this tree
      • The Elder
    • Tottenham parks >
      • St Ann's Redevelopment
    • Tottenham Tree Trails
    • Who we are >
      • Postcards and Bags
  • Charter for Trees
    • Charter history
    • Charter Principles
    • Independent Panel on Forestry
  • About Trees
    • Latest news on Trees 2021 >
      • Tree articles 2020
      • Tree articles 2019
      • Tree articles 2018
      • Tree articles 2017
      • Tree articles 2016
      • Tree articles 2015
    • Threats to our trees
    • Tree Identification
    • Tree Quizzes >
      • Celebrating Trees Quiz 2019 >
        • Answers: Celebrating Trees 2019
      • Celebrating Trees 2018 >
        • Answers: Celebrating Trees
      • Lazy Sunday Tree Quiz >
        • Answers: Lazy Sunday
    • Global Tree Calendar
  • Urban Trees
    • Growing trees from seed
    • iTree surveying
    • Street Trees for Living
    • Tree care
    • Tree packs for free
    • Tree planting
    • Trees in the Townscape
  • Inspirations
    • Wangari Maathai >
      • Green Belt Movement
      • Institute and Foundation
      • First Seven Trees
      • Remembering Wangari
      • Kenya
    • Felix Finkbeiner
    • Chico Mendes
    • Chipko Movement
    • Plant for the Planet >
      • 3 Point Plan
    • Inspiring stories from around the world
  • Tree Events
    • Tree Charter Day 2019 >
      • Legacy Oak Ale
    • Urban Tree Festival 2019
    • Wassail 2019
    • Tree Charter Day 2018
    • Tree Charter Day 2017
    • 800 year Charter anniversary
    • Poetry Sunday @ Bruce Castle
    • Poetry @ The Room
    • Calling Tree: Tottenham
    • London National Park City 2018
    • London Tree Week 2017
    • London Tree Week 2016
    • Other Tottenham tree events
  • Green Spaces
    • Other Haringey Green Spaces
    • London Friends of Green Spaces
    • London National Park City
    • Parks cafe trail
    • The Conservation Volunteers
    • Future Forest

Celebrating Trees at Bruce Castle
​A focus on Urban Trees
Sunday 1 December 2019

Picture
Find Stephen's Tree Quiz and other Tree Quizzes here

Talks

Picture
Picture
Keith Sacre - Valuing Urban Trees
Keith Sacre of Treeconomics talked about the benefits and changing urban landscape of trees in terms of managing a resource for future generations. He introduced the i-Tree Eco computer programme which Treeconomics uses  to quantify the environmental effects of urban trees, and calculate their value to society.

Keith has over twenty year’s experience in local government as Arboriculture & Urban Forest Director.   He also spent eleven years at Notcutt’s Nurseries with responsibility for tree sales to local authorities and other trade outlets. Currently Keith is Sales Director with Barcham Trees, the largest container tree nursery in Europe.  Keith is a member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters and a Chartered Arboriculturist. He has a MSc in Arboriculture and Urban Forestry, a BSc in Social Science and a BSc in Arboriculture. Keith is currently a trustee of the Arboricultural Association and the Trees and Design Action Group (TDAG).

To find out more about Treeconomics click here

To find out more about the open-source iTree Eco programme click here
Picture
Paul Wood - London is a forest
Paul Wood, author of London's Street Trees, will talk about his new book, London is a Forest published earlier this year. In it, Paul explores
London's urban forest including its geography and history, the animals and plants - especially the trees - found in it and the stories of some of the people who have shaped it. London is a Forest is structured around a series of 'forest trails' taking us from the edgelands to the beating heart of the clamorous 21st century megacity where 8.5 million trees rub shoulders with roughly the same number of people.

Paul is by profession a web designer, but by passion a dendrologist.   Paul has been interested in plants since he was 13 when a Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) appeared in his back garden.  He says: Everywhere I go I find myself making mental notes about what’s growing and what might be growing, so this blog {see below} is my musings on nature, plants, landscapes and the environment. Paul lives in London and was until 2017 a trustee of the London Wildlife Trust.

Paul's books are available at all good bookstores including Stanfords (7 Mercer Walk just off Long Acre, London, WC2E 9LP)
The Street Tree:  blog by Paul and he is active on twitter
@TheStreetTree: Notes, queries and IDs from the urban forest.

Picture

The Bruce Castle Oak

Bob Hare discussed the arboricultural report on the Bruce Castle Oak which was funded by the Woodland Trust, and part of the award for the oak as runner-up England Tree of the Year in 2018. Discussions are still continuing on how the £500 Tree Care Award might best be used.


And then to the Antwerp Arms for
Stephen's Tree Quiz and Redemption's Legacy Oak Ale

Stephen's Tree Quiz :
congratulations to The Woodentops who won the quiz with 30/34 points and each received a bag of Tree Charter goodies.
The other teams scores:

Woodpeckers - 27.5/34
Tree Charter and Urban Verderers - 26/34
Walnuts - 25/34
Spruce Castle Park - 24/34

To test your knowledge of trees click below:
Celebrating Trees 2019
And Answers here!

and another excellent brew of the Tottenham Oak's very own special Legacy Oak Ale from Redemption Brewery!

Tasting Notes here

Picture

Thank you to Deborah and Lucy at Bruce Castle Museum, 
Pete at the Antwerp Arms and Andy & Bart at Redemption Brewery for their support

Find out what's happening!
Learn more about trees
Find out out about the Tree Charter
Sign up for  Tottenham Trees Occasional Updates
Contact us at: tottenhamtrees@gmail.com
In Tottenham seven trees were planted in a ring over 400 years ago for reasons lost in time; the Seven Sisters area and the underground station are named after them. The seven trees have been replanted a number of times, always by seven sisters. 

The Tottenham Trees logo, shown on the right, is a silhouette of the Bruce Castle Oak with the logo of the Charter for Trees, Woods and People launched in November 2017, on the 800th anniversary of the Royal Charter of the Forest.

Picture
  • Tottenham Trees
    • #HaringeyFavouriteTrees 2022
    • #HaringeyFavouriteTrees 2021
    • Special trees in Tottenham >
      • Bruce Castle Oak >
        • Arboricultural survey
        • Reminiscences of the Bruce Castle Oak
        • Calling Tree >
          • Calling Tree: gallery
      • Mulberry tree
      • Seven Sisters
    • Trees in Tottenham (Galleries) >
      • Tottenham trees (A-D common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (E-K common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (L-R common name)
      • Tottenham Trees (S-Z common name)
    • Trees in Art from Tottenham
    • Trees in Words from Tottenham >
      • Epping
      • It's a Word Thing!
      • Message on leaves
      • Ode from the Oak
      • Of this tree
      • The Elder
    • Tottenham parks >
      • St Ann's Redevelopment
    • Tottenham Tree Trails
    • Who we are >
      • Postcards and Bags
  • Charter for Trees
    • Charter history
    • Charter Principles
    • Independent Panel on Forestry
  • About Trees
    • Latest news on Trees 2021 >
      • Tree articles 2020
      • Tree articles 2019
      • Tree articles 2018
      • Tree articles 2017
      • Tree articles 2016
      • Tree articles 2015
    • Threats to our trees
    • Tree Identification
    • Tree Quizzes >
      • Celebrating Trees Quiz 2019 >
        • Answers: Celebrating Trees 2019
      • Celebrating Trees 2018 >
        • Answers: Celebrating Trees
      • Lazy Sunday Tree Quiz >
        • Answers: Lazy Sunday
    • Global Tree Calendar
  • Urban Trees
    • Growing trees from seed
    • iTree surveying
    • Street Trees for Living
    • Tree care
    • Tree packs for free
    • Tree planting
    • Trees in the Townscape
  • Inspirations
    • Wangari Maathai >
      • Green Belt Movement
      • Institute and Foundation
      • First Seven Trees
      • Remembering Wangari
      • Kenya
    • Felix Finkbeiner
    • Chico Mendes
    • Chipko Movement
    • Plant for the Planet >
      • 3 Point Plan
    • Inspiring stories from around the world
  • Tree Events
    • Tree Charter Day 2019 >
      • Legacy Oak Ale
    • Urban Tree Festival 2019
    • Wassail 2019
    • Tree Charter Day 2018
    • Tree Charter Day 2017
    • 800 year Charter anniversary
    • Poetry Sunday @ Bruce Castle
    • Poetry @ The Room
    • Calling Tree: Tottenham
    • London National Park City 2018
    • London Tree Week 2017
    • London Tree Week 2016
    • Other Tottenham tree events
  • Green Spaces
    • Other Haringey Green Spaces
    • London Friends of Green Spaces
    • London National Park City
    • Parks cafe trail
    • The Conservation Volunteers
    • Future Forest