Japanese Acer – Acer palmatum

The Japanese Acer, like last week’s Tree of the Week the Silver Birch, makes an ideal garden tree for anyone. They won’t all grow into veritable giants like the one pictured above.

Silver Birch – Betula pendula

Silver Birch, like the Common Oak which featured in Tree of the Week Part 1, is a native tree to Britain. It’s also called a ‘pioneer’ tree because it’s usually the first one to settle a newly opened up area. Whether at the edge of a woodland or a bit of open ground in an urban setting.

Horse Chestnut – Aesculus hippocastanum

Number 2 in our Tree of the Week blog is the gorgeous Horse Chestnut – most of you will know it as the Conker tree, but there’s more to this beauty than playing games with its big, shiny seeds!

Over the past 4 weeks we have been supporting a local student Alex, by providing him with work experience whilst he studies Arboriculture at Reaseheath College.