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Charlton House, SE7. Who knew? It’s an impressive Jacobean stately home built for royalty and now owned by Greenwich council. The first point may explain the astonishing 400 year old mulberry growing next to the car park, the latter probably explains the presence of this Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei). A species much favoured by local authorities for planting in front of town halls and other civic buildings, I’m not sure it’s entirely appropriate here...

I found myself in Suffolk at the weekend, and was impressed by this fine London Plane (Platanus x hispanica) towering above the market in Bury St Edmunds. Couldn't help thinking though, it might have been even better - not to mention shadier - if it had been left to fulfil its spreading potential much as (Oriental) Planes shade similar civic spaces in Greece.

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