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London Tree Week 2016

Post author By paulitzer
Post date 26 May, 2016
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How exciting – next week, Saturday 28 May – Sunday 5 June, is London Tree Week! I’m sure this fantastic initiative from the Mayor will prove to be a great success. There are a whole raft of activities organised by City Hall’s environment department to check out on the London Tree Week pages. Not to be outdone […]

Tags London Tree Week, Mayor of London, sorbus, sorbus torminalis, TiCL, wild service tree

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Chequer schnapps update

Post author By paulitzer
Post date 13 October, 2011
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In my recent post about the Wild Service tree and it’s elusive fruits, I reproduced an English translation of a German recipe for Wild Service vodka, or Chequer schnapps as I now prefer to call it.

Tags ancient woodland, carpinus betulus, chequers, Crataegus laevigata, highgate, hornbeam, london, muswell hill, Nature reserve, queen's wood, sorbus, sorbus torminalis, torminaria, wild service, wild service tree, woodland hawthorn