Going to England

[MtnArb]

So I'm heading across the pond for a family trip in October and was wanting to pick up some gear while there, and maybe check out some of the awesome trees in Thomas Pakenhams Meetings With Remarkable Trees.
I guess I got two questions.

1 is there a retail store like honey brothers around London where I could look and try on some different chainsaw pants? I know I can just get my cousins over there to order stuff and have it waiting for me, but I'd really like to try some different pants on.

2 has anyone found exact locations of any of the trees in that book in Southern England? Or any other crazy cool trees around London? I've been to Kew before and might go back, but just looking for some new trees.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

A few years ago I used P'hams book as one of my travel guides. When I was heading towards an area I would check to see if there were trees listed. They were very easy to find. On that trip I think that I was at 6-8 of the trees. Pretty spectacular!

You might be interested to see how trees were used to build ships...visit Portsmouth:

Royal Navy Museum

 

[MikePoor]

just went there in april.....tree trip of a lifetime....You can find almost of packenhams trees "secret" locales on the web. problem....there are TOO MANY must see trees. Here is a teaser photo

 

[porcupine]

Wow Mike that is one crazy looking tree, any guess how old?

 

[MtnArb]

Is that the fredville oak? The book dates it to Elizabethan times as a guess. So you just googled stuff to find the locations? Asked at the local pub?

 

[macrocarpa]

Take lots of photos to share!

 

[guymayor]

The BBC did an excellent series of vids on Notable Trees in England--youtube channel is nationaltrustcharity

Brian does a fine job of mixing in cultural and arboricultural history of some amazing specimens.

I'll be briefly around London around Labor Day; will fwd info as possible.

 

[TimberJack]

My favorite park in London is Soho park because of the huge plane trees.

 

[MikePoor]

Yes the Fredville Oak (aka Majesty) If You want to see it get there asap! It's on its last stand. root flare covered with G. app' its entire circumference! just lost a huge stem before i got there. estimates on age from 500 - 1000 yrs. i thought the 1000 yr was grossly overestimated until i saw the annual rings on one of the stems. Also a local book "Trees of London" was helpful. Kew was great but if You have time: wakehurst place, tilgate park (crawley), bedgebury pinetum, westonbirt, etc.