Tag: platanus x acerifolia

The rain in London falls mainly on the planes

Post author By paulitzer
Post date 5 August, 2023
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London plane trees should take their place alongside other London particulars like red buses, odd skyscrapers and unpredictable weather.

Tags cities, london, london plane, platanus, platanus orientalis, platanus x acerifolia, platanus x hispanica, rainfall, street trees, trees, treescape, urban forest, weather

Urban landscape

Old St. Pancras’ Hardy Tree

Post author By paulitzer
Post date 1 December, 2011
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The Hardy Tree, an Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) surrounded by gravestones, Old St. Pancras churchyard, London — Fraxinus Excelsior: The Hardy Ash Tree forms the focal point of Thomas' visionary tombstone wheel

The graveyard of Old St. Pancras church is full of interest: tucked away behind the station, it contains several things worth missing a train for, not least some venerable old trees. The churchyard has survived much as it must have appeared in the mid 19th century when the last significant alterations were made. Its architectural […]

Tags ash tree, churchyard, fraxinus, fraxinus excelsior, Georgian architecture, london, platanus, platanus x acerifolia, sir john soane, St. Pancras, the hardy tree, thomas hardy, Victorian

Street Trees Urban landscape

On another Plane

I’ve been working up to the inevitable London Plane (Platanus x acerifolia) post for some time but this, you may be pleased to know, is not it. Instead I’d like to compare notes on one of it’s parents, the Oriental Plane (Platanus orientalis). Two examples of these relatives of the acerifolia (Maple-leaved) tree inhabit Brunswick […]

Tags Bloomsbury, Georgian architecture, london, london plane, oriental plane, plane tree, platanus, platanus orientalis, platanus x acerifolia, street trees, WC1