Saturday 29th March
The course introduces the skills needed to identify coniferous trees native to the British Isles, as well as common non-native species.
Trees are an imposing and ecologically important component of the flora of the British Isles. Since the end of the last ice age around 10,000 years ago they began to re-colonise our landscape until the rising Channel cut through the land-bridge to mainland Europe around 2,000 or so years later. Since those times many other species have been introduced for use in forestry and horticulture.
We will be making the most of the Park visiting both the public areas and sites not normally accessible to members of the public. We will look at characteristics such as bark, foliage and cones, and start to get to grips with the botanical terminology used in identification keys.
By the end of this course participants will have:
- learnt to recognise the main species of tree found in Bushy Park
- used keys to identify trees and understand some of the terminology on them
- discovered more about the ecology of trees and woodlands
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