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The Tree Register @TreeRegister

A charity recording the largest and tallest trees of all species found growing throughout Britain and Ireland.

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The Tree Register@TreeRegister
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Come and see the fabulous spring colours in the amazing garden at Gresgarth Hall with its remarkable collection of rare trees and plants. Many of the trees and plants were collected and grown by the owner - Lady Arabella Lennox Boyd. gresgarthhall.com/
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Come and see the fabulous spring colours in the amazing garden at Gresgarth Hall with its remarkable collection of rare trees and plants. Many of the trees and plants were collected and grown by the owner - Lady Arabella Lennox Boyd. gresgarthhall.com
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Come and see the fabulous spring colours in the amazing garden at Gresgarth Hall with its remarkable collection of rare trees and plants. Many of the trees and plants were collected and grown by the owner - Lady Arabella Lennox Boyd. gresgarthhall.com
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An excellent evening at the @RGS_IBG last night. Seamus O’Brien’s talk on explorer & plant hunter Frank Kingdon Ward captivated guests with tales from India to the Himalayas. A rare treat to view the RGS’s botanical art collection too. hanks to our sponsor @BarchamTrees 🌳
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The Tree Register Lecture. The Plant Hunters. LAST COUPLE OF DAYS TO BUY YOUR TICKETS. A fundraising lecture by Seamus O’Brien. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London 📅 12 November 2025 | £25 🎟 Tickets: bit.ly/42WGqLm
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The Tree Register Lecture. The Plant Hunters. A fundraising lecture by Seamus O’Brien who retraced the steps of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward across Asia. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London 📅 12 November 2025 | £25 🎟 Tickets: bit.ly/42WGqLm #thicktrunktuesday
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🌍✨Step into the wild with plant hunter Captain Frank Kingdon Ward. 📅12 Nov 2025 | @RGS_IBG | £25 | Students & Apprentices £10 🕰Doors 6:30pm, lecture 7:30–9:30pm, archives open before & after. 🎤Seamus O’Brien retraces Ward’s journey across Asia. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-plant…
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He braved the Himalayas, and brought home the impossible blue of the Himalayan poppy. 🌏💙 Join us as Seamus O’Brien retraces the footsteps of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward. 📅 Wednesday 12 November. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London. 🎟 Tickets: in the pinned tweet above.
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The Plant Hunters Lecture 🎤 Presented by Seamus O’Brien Celebrating the life and travels of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward (1885–1958) the legendary explorer & plant hunter 📅 Wednesday 12 November 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London SW7 2AR 🎟 Tickets: link in pinned tweet
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Rhododendron macabeanum, native to India, introduced to Britain by Frank Kingdon-Ward in around 1928. Here we see a fine example at Nymans (@nationaltrust) in West Sussex, grown from Kingdon-Ward’s original seed collection KW7724. #thicktrunktuesday
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Tree Register - Plant Hunters 🎤 Presented by Seamus O’Brien Discover the adventures of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward (1885–1958) explorer and legendary plant hunter 📅 Wednesday 12 November 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London, SW7 2AR 🎟 Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-plant…
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🌍✨Step into the wild with plant hunter Captain Frank Kingdon Ward. 📅12 Nov 2025 | @RGS_IBG | £25 | Students & Apprentices £10 🕰Doors 6:30pm, lecture 7:30–9:30pm, archives open before & after. 🎤Seamus O’Brien retraces Ward’s 47-year journey across Asia.
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🌍✨Step into the wild with plant hunter Captain Frank Kingdon Ward. 📅12 Nov 2025 | @RGS_IBG | £25 | Students & Apprentices £10 🕰Doors 6:30pm, lecture 7:30–9:30pm, archives open before & after. 🎤Seamus O’Brien retraces Ward’s 47-year journey across Asia. #thicktrunktuesday
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The Tree Register Lecture. The Plant Hunters. A fundraising lecture by Seamus O’Brien who retraced the steps of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward across Asia. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London 📅 12 November 2025 | £25 🎟 Tickets: bit.ly/42WGqLm #thicktrunktuesday
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The Tree Register Lecture. The Plant Hunters. A fundraising lecture by Seamus O’Brien who retraced the steps of Captain Frank Kingdon Ward across Asia. 📍 Royal Geographical Society, London 📅 12 November 2025 | £25 🎟 Tickets: bit.ly/42WGqLm #thicktrunktuesday
A visual asset: showing a picture of Seamus O'Brien a plant hunter who travelled across Asia to discover plants.

ALT A visual asset: showing a picture of Seamus O'Brien a plant hunter who travelled across Asia to discover plants.

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theguardian.com/environment/…

National Trust creates living gene bank of endangered native black poplar

Cuttings of tree captured by John Constable being planted on restored Devon floodplain

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🌳The Tree Register of the British Isles, often known as TROBI, is a charity that holds a recorded database of 250,000 trees. 🌲Celebrating our wonderful tree heritage, our database is a definitive list of champion trees. 💻treeregister.org #TROBI #ThickTrunkTuesday
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This monstrous branchy, burred, tree stands in Kilmory Castle of Argyll and Bute. It's the Scottish champion Japanese Red Cedar (Cryptomeria japonica var. sinensis) with an impressive girth of 802cm (at 1m height) and stands 27.4m tall. Credit: Alan Hunton #thicktrunktuesday
Scottish champion Japanese Red Cedar tree

ALT Scottish champion Japanese Red Cedar tree
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#ThickTrunkTuesday Today's Thick Trunk is the UK girth champion Silver fir (Abies alba). Known as 'The Monster' with four large trunks forming a combined girth of 977cm. It was one of 70 trees chosen to be part of 'The Queen's Green Canopy' in 2022.
Albies abla silver fir tree.

ALT Albies abla silver fir tree.

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One million trees planted for 'Forest of Cornwall' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckrg…

One million trees planted for 'Forest of Cornwall'

A community tree planting scheme that began in 2019 grows to 1,000 hectares, a council says.

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