Project to plant 1,000 elm trees in Brighton and Hove (From The Argus)

How do you plan elm trees

It's plane simple!

whatever happened to the plan to plant a boulevard of trees along kingsway from the drive to king alfred?. funny how the tree planting and greening of the city is always in brighton and not hove, why? some wild flower meadows in the parks would be welcome to help bees and insects for pollenation and less mowing, and how about taking out the ugly shrubs along the brighton and hove seafront next to the cycle lane and replacing with something alot more attractive, not to mention the ugly paving along here, come on Greens, the seafront should be our showcase.

Number Six wrote:
How do you plan elm trees

If you are going to pick someone up on their grammar, the least you could do is remember that questions have a question mark at the end.

Can't the Argus get it right, its 1 Elm tree in Western Road, 10 replacement Elm trees in Surrender Road, and a 1000 mixed native trees creating woodland at Vale Avenue and Stammer Park, never let facts get in the way of a story egh!

elms or ashes or oaks or sycamores or what ever, 1000 new trees is a good move, lets have more.

bug eye wrote:
whatever happened to the plan to plant a boulevard of trees along kingsway from the drive to king alfred?. funny how the tree planting and greening of the city is always in brighton and not hove, why? some wild flower meadows in the parks would be welcome to help bees and insects for pollenation and less mowing, and how about taking out the ugly shrubs along the brighton and hove seafront next to the cycle lane and replacing with something alot more attractive, not to mention the ugly paving along here, come on Greens, the seafront should be our showcase.

It was probably scrapped as being a dreadful idea! Blocking a far better sea view with some wind blown, high maintenance, injury inducing, leaf depositing, view blocking trees is crazy..

Need to make a comment concerning the elms. Brighton and Hove has many rare and wonderful elm trees. The Preston Twins in Preston Park are estimated at 400 years old, but could be older. They are the oldest and largest English elm not just in Europe, but THE WORLD! All other contestants for the title having now gone or are smaller.

The City Council has already planted many rare elms from both Europe and North America. Though I do not work for the council, I have surveyed elms here for over 25 years and help found the Tree Register. Amongst records for the elm in the Tree Register, there are some 40 national champion elms from this city. This city also has the largest Biodiversity of Elm of any in the world, over 90 different types altogether. There is concern for trees being felled at Preston Park, along the London Road side. These giants are reaching their prime and some have been rendered unsafe, so removed. But the line is still the best in the world, of the species known as Wheatley elm.

Other great elms worth mentioning in this city are the Weeping Wych elm in the Royal Pavilion Gardens planted around 1900. The Brace tree in the same area with its huge iron brace to hold it together (now engulfed by the tree); the Level - the only double avenue of Dutch and English elms possibly in the world and the Himalayan elm in Crespin Way is an exceptionally rare sight as groups of the species are not found anywhere else in this country. Need we go on. Every year there are visitors from Europe to view the trees, including some of the top specialists from Holland. Every year many new elm trees are planted to bring more green to the city. Around 10 species of elm recently found in this city, were up to now believed to be extinct by many experts.

So I think we can see how very lucky we are to have these elms and additional trees are most welcome.