You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. One of the best modern tree identification books, this guide covers a wide variety of trees and has a simple key at the beginning to help you get started, as well as good identification detail. Fifty-eight illustrated pages are crammed full of tips that help in identifying 300 of North America's most common native trees. Its loss goes hand-in-hand with the decline of the elusive white-letter hairstreak butterfly, whose caterpillars rely on elm leaves. The best part of the Peterson guide is that it has clearly and beautifully illustrated leafed summer and leafless winter keys.

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I had bought the place and now felt a responsibility for looking after the homes of the birds and other wildlife. A welcome sign you’re homeward bound, the wayfaring tree is so named because it grows close to paths. But at least I now have the ability to tell the tree "experts" to step back into their pickups and leave the premises when they start making up stories about my trees. Download our free Tree ID app for Android and iPhone to identify the UK's native and non-native trees.This handy pocket-sized guide tells you all you need to know about identifying and collecting seeds, how to germinate and sow them, and how to plant out the trees you grow and ensure their survival. It is the most interesting book I have read on the treatment of the individual tree to an educated but non-technical reader. The make flowers of hazel hang in long catkins, but the female flowers are tiny with their shocking pink stigmas peeping out of the top like tiny sea anemones.

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A great introductory guide to native and common naturalised trees with good simple keys to leaves, twigs and cones. It is not the only book you want, because it will only help you identify the tree, but it is a fantastic resource for that. Although it isn’t as valuable to wildlife as our native oaks, it’s popular with nesting birds and pollinators. Scruffy and loud, the crack willow is named after its habit of splitting with cracks and fissures, and how noisy its branches are when they break. If it is spring, summer or autumn and its a Broadleaf tree use the Broadleaf Leaf, Buds, Thorns, Catkins, Bark, White Flowers, Cherry Blossom, Summer Fruit, Autumn Leaf Colours or Autumn Fruits keys.

If we don't protect what we have left and work to create woodlands of the future, we stand to lose more than just trees. Explore our simple A-Z identification guide to the trees of Britain, from natives to naturalised and widely planted non-native species. They are often referred to and quoted from by tree lovers, ​foresters, and forest owners and are good despite their publishing date. Since then, it’s colonised woodland, becoming a source of food and shelter for wildlife including aphids that leave behind their tacky honeydew.