A Tree Grows In Marylebone London
A tree grows in Marylebone London. To be specific, this tree is a 20-foot liquid amber, just planted in Great Portland Street earlier this year to mark the culmination of a 600-tree project to minimize the impact of heavy traffic around and within the perimeter of Marylebone and to make a more pleasing, natural environment even along busy streets.
The tree-planting effort was part of a greater-London initiative called Re:Leaf to make London a greener environment both in color and nature. In Marylebone, the effort planted over 600 trees flanking the busiest streets, including Great Portland Street.
The first tree in the initiative was planted in 2009 in Hallam Street, and has concluded with the liquid amber on Great Portland Street, with a total of over 30 streets in Marylebone London graced with trees lining the streets.
As a result, quality of life, visually pleasing streets, and more pleasant walking environments will be enjoyedin a village that is already accustomed to being a walking paradise.
The trees chosen for the project comprise a varied list including pear, birch, olive, elm, Gingko, Amelanchier, Koeruteria and liquid amber. The liquid amber appears to have its sole specimen planted in Great Portland Street whereas the tree most used in the project on several streets is the pear, with over 200 specimens planted. Come Christmastime in Marylebone, a covey of partridges is sure to convene.
However, the several elm trees planted in the project have a taller and older cousin called the Marylebone Elm, one of the Great Trees of London, located on Marylebone High Street. It is estimated to be 150 years old, 100 feet tall, and is the last elm tree of long standing in all of Westminster, having survived the epidemic of Dutch Elm disease that struck down many other elms in the area forty years ago.
Marylebone would have been delightful, as it has always been, without the effort to plant trees along the roadways of the village, but there is no doubt, now that the project has reached its initial conclusion, and surpassing everyone’s estimated hopes of participation, that the tree lining has already softened the atmosphere of the streets.
Some are already beginning to provide shade, they all provide added greenery, and their maturity will be celebrated year by year as they contribute pulling the village back from its concrete and steel to draw nature back into the village environment.
The trees provide foliage, attract signing birds, absorb pollutants, oxygenate the air, give beauty and provide shade along the walkways. Most of the trees planted in the initiative are by donation from residents and businesses. There are several trees in the initiative planted by residents in memory of passed friends as memorials of endearment in a village where everyone seems connected to others.
The liquid amber on Great Portland Street is destined to become a great ornamental of up to 150 feet in height, although a typical cultivated tree is kept at 30 to 50 feet, the likely condition of the Great Portland Street specimen. Its leaves are broad, five-pointed and blaze with color in the fall.
The tree-planting effort was part of a greater-London initiative called Re:Leaf to make London a greener environment both in color and nature. In Marylebone, the effort planted over 600 trees flanking the busiest streets, including Great Portland Street.
The first tree in the initiative was planted in 2009 in Hallam Street, and has concluded with the liquid amber on Great Portland Street, with a total of over 30 streets in Marylebone London graced with trees lining the streets.
As a result, quality of life, visually pleasing streets, and more pleasant walking environments will be enjoyedin a village that is already accustomed to being a walking paradise.
The trees chosen for the project comprise a varied list including pear, birch, olive, elm, Gingko, Amelanchier, Koeruteria and liquid amber. The liquid amber appears to have its sole specimen planted in Great Portland Street whereas the tree most used in the project on several streets is the pear, with over 200 specimens planted. Come Christmastime in Marylebone, a covey of partridges is sure to convene.
However, the several elm trees planted in the project have a taller and older cousin called the Marylebone Elm, one of the Great Trees of London, located on Marylebone High Street. It is estimated to be 150 years old, 100 feet tall, and is the last elm tree of long standing in all of Westminster, having survived the epidemic of Dutch Elm disease that struck down many other elms in the area forty years ago.
Marylebone would have been delightful, as it has always been, without the effort to plant trees along the roadways of the village, but there is no doubt, now that the project has reached its initial conclusion, and surpassing everyone’s estimated hopes of participation, that the tree lining has already softened the atmosphere of the streets.
Some are already beginning to provide shade, they all provide added greenery, and their maturity will be celebrated year by year as they contribute pulling the village back from its concrete and steel to draw nature back into the village environment.
The trees provide foliage, attract signing birds, absorb pollutants, oxygenate the air, give beauty and provide shade along the walkways. Most of the trees planted in the initiative are by donation from residents and businesses. There are several trees in the initiative planted by residents in memory of passed friends as memorials of endearment in a village where everyone seems connected to others.
The liquid amber on Great Portland Street is destined to become a great ornamental of up to 150 feet in height, although a typical cultivated tree is kept at 30 to 50 feet, the likely condition of the Great Portland Street specimen. Its leaves are broad, five-pointed and blaze with color in the fall.
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