English oak
The English oak supports more plant and animal interactions than any other native tree species.
In the spring, the oaks provide a fantastic pollen and nectar resource to early emerging pollinators, while the flowers and leaves of oaks make excellent food plants for our native purple hairstreak butterflies.
In the autumn, the fallen and rotting leaves on the ground support a wealth of fungi and invertebrates.
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Japanese andromeda 'Wakehurst'
Identified by the RHS as a fantastic shrub for pollinators, this plant provides an excellent floral resource for early emerging pollinators.
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Plymouth pear
Did you know flies are also important pollinators?
You may be able to smell the unpleasant scent of this tree - often described as fishy or 'like a damp carpet'.
This unfavorable odour helps attract important insects such as flies to encourage pollination.
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Field maple
This is the UK's only native maple tree.
It is incredibly tolerant of pollution so is widely planted in our congested towns and cities.
The small spring emerging flowers provide pollen and nectar to bees and other pollinators.
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Asian hawthorn
Asian hawthorn brings all of the same properties as our native hawthorn.
We are interested in this species as we think it may be more tolerant to our changing climate than our own native hawthorn.
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Arnold buckeye
This tree is a relative of the horse chestnut, possessing the same type of showy flowers.
We believe this tree may be more tolerant to climate change than it's horse chestnut relative and provides the same vital pollen resource to our native pollinating insects.
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Silver lime
Kew scientists have found that lime trees possess medicinal properties for bees.
The nectar of this tree contains caffeine which is just as addictive for bees and it is us humans!
Bees will repeatedly visit this tree throughout its flowering time.
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Silver birch
workflow.convinces.opposite
brink.cleans.buckling
Sycamore maple
both.exotic.terminal
Common broom
callibrate.appendix.twit
Weeping kowhai
dented.launcher.overcomes
Japanese maple
again.privately.transcribes
clearcut.octagon.jolly
Grey Willow
lunching.reforming.fattening
Japanese skimmia
pianists.agency.famines
Japanese maple
complier.masks.fruitcake
Ulleung Island Rowan
vines.shipwreck.reply
Common broom
callibrate.appendix.twit
Common hawthorn
encloses.downhill.dignity
English walnut
takers.originals.realm
Horse chestnut
pokers.clipboard.rent
Sapphire dragon tree
quit.defering.impact
Sorbopyrus malifolia
glossed.choice.stubbed
Korean mountain ash
hype.seriously.sublet
Mountain Ash
drags.wool.scans
Himalayan Horse chestnut
rucksack.leaves.fizzle
Redvein enkianthus
boots.storming.freely
Dog rose
slid.november.irony
Kousa dogwood
human.immune.caged
Himalayan Horse chestnut
rucksack.leaves.fizzle
Redvein enkianthus
fluctuate.enrolling.cooking
Dog rose
slid.november.irony
Kouse dogwood
human.immune.caged
Wedding cake tree
cascaded.pedicure.card
twit.ratio.newstand
Delavay privet
goes.repaying.outer
Goldenrain tree
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