Tony Kirkham MBE is Head of the Arboretum, Gardens & Horticultural Services at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was awarded the RHS’s highest accolade, the Victoria Medal of Honour, in 2019. He has participated in and led several plant-collecting expeditions to Chile and East Asia and has written, co-authored or edited numerous books on trees. He has also featured on TV programmes including A Year at Kew and Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees and has presented two series of The Trees That Made Britain for the BBC.KEW ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS has built a global resource for medicinal plant names that enables health professionals and researchers to access information about plants and plant products relevant to pharmacological research, health regulation, traditional medicine and functional foods.

• Part One: The value of trees and why should we plant them?Trees in the gardenWhat is a tree?Parts of a treePlanting the right tree in the right placeBuying a treeLooking after a tree between buying and plantingPlanting a treeTree stakingAftercare following plantingTree propagationPruning treesMature tree pruning operationsWhen and how to hire a professional arboristPart Two: Tree profilesBlack tupeloPaperback mapleSilver birchTulip treeSaucer magnoliaJapanese mapleNorway mapleHandkerchief treeCommon hawthornBlack mulberryJapanese dogwoodChinese flowering dogwoodHoney locustJudas treeGolden chain treeBlack walnutSweetgumHarlequin glorybowerSiberian crabWillow-leaved pearHornbeamKatsuraGrey alderJapanese Yoshino cherryTibetan cherryIndian horse chestnutScarlet oakJapanese zelkovaRowanWhitebeamSmall-leaved limeIndian bean treeService berryBullbaySilver wattleStrawberry treeOliveNew Zealand lacebarkWestern red cedarLawson cypressEnglish yewMediterranean cypressDawn redwoodMaidenhair treePalm treeProjectsPlanting a maidenhair tree in a container for a balcony or patioGrowing a tree from seedMaking a collage of preserved, colourful autumnal leaves in a picture frameTopiarising a bay tree into a standard ballCreating a multi-stemmed birchGrow your own Christmas tree to bring inside each yearEstablishing mistletoe in a garden treeFive hardworking trees for any small gardenBuilding an ecological pile in the garden from old logs and branchesMaking a bee hotelAgeing an oak tree and measuring the height without technologyResearching and finding an old veteran tree in a local garden, park or graveyardTroubleshootingWhat to do when

Tony Kirkham MBE is Head of the Arboretum, Gardens & Horticultural Services at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was awarded the RHS’s highest accolade, the Victoria Medal of Honour, in 2019. He has participated in and led several plant-collecting expeditions to Chile and East Asia and has written, co-authored or edited numerous books on trees. He has also featured on TV programmes including A Year at Kew and Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees and has presented two series of The Trees That Made Britain for the BBC.KEW ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS has built a global resource for medicinal plant names that enables health professionals and researchers to access information about plants and plant products relevant to pharmacological research, health regulation, traditional medicine and functional foods.

• Part One: The value of trees and why should we plant them?Trees in the gardenWhat is a tree?Parts of a treePlanting the right tree in the right placeBuying a treeLooking after a tree between buying and plantingPlanting a treeTree stakingAftercare following plantingTree propagationPruning treesMature tree pruning operationsWhen and how to hire a professional arboristPart Two: Tree profilesBlack tupeloPaperback mapleSilver birchTulip treeSaucer magnoliaJapanese mapleNorway mapleHandkerchief treeCommon hawthornBlack mulberryJapanese dogwoodChinese flowering dogwoodHoney locustJudas treeGolden chain treeBlack walnutSweetgumHarlequin glorybowerSiberian crabWillow-leaved pearHornbeamKatsuraGrey alderJapanese Yoshino cherryTibetan cherryIndian horse chestnutScarlet oakJapanese zelkovaRowanWhitebeamSmall-leaved limeIndian bean treeService berryBullbaySilver wattleStrawberry treeOliveNew Zealand lacebarkWestern red cedarLawson cypressEnglish yewMediterranean cypressDawn redwoodMaidenhair treePalm treeProjectsPlanting a maidenhair tree in a container for a balcony or patioGrowing a tree from seedMaking a collage of preserved, colourful autumnal leaves in a picture frameTopiarising a bay tree into a standard ballCreating a multi-stemmed birchGrow your own Christmas tree to bring inside each yearEstablishing mistletoe in a garden treeFive hardworking trees for any small gardenBuilding an ecological pile in the garden from old logs and branchesMaking a bee hotelAgeing an oak tree and measuring the height without technologyResearching and finding an old veteran tree in a local garden, park or graveyardTroubleshootingWhat to do when

Tony Kirkham MBE is Head of the Arboretum, Gardens & Horticultural Services at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was awarded the RHS’s highest accolade, the Victoria Medal of Honour, in 2019. He has participated in and led several plant-collecting expeditions to Chile and East Asia and has written, co-authored or edited numerous books on trees. He has also featured on TV programmes including A Year at Kew and Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees and has presented two series of The Trees That Made Britain for the BBC.KEW ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS has built a global resource for medicinal plant names that enables health professionals and researchers to access information about plants and plant products relevant to pharmacological research, health regulation, traditional medicine and functional foods.

• Part One: The value of trees and why should we plant them?Trees in the gardenWhat is a tree?Parts of a treePlanting the right tree in the right placeBuying a treeLooking after a tree between buying and plantingPlanting a treeTree stakingAftercare following plantingTree propagationPruning treesMature tree pruning operationsWhen and how to hire a professional arboristPart Two: Tree profilesBlack tupeloPaperback mapleSilver birchTulip treeSaucer magnoliaJapanese mapleNorway mapleHandkerchief treeCommon hawthornBlack mulberryJapanese dogwoodChinese flowering dogwoodHoney locustJudas treeGolden chain treeBlack walnutSweetgumHarlequin glorybowerSiberian crabWillow-leaved pearHornbeamKatsuraGrey alderJapanese Yoshino cherryTibetan cherryIndian horse chestnutScarlet oakJapanese zelkovaRowanWhitebeamSmall-leaved limeIndian bean treeService berryBullbaySilver wattleStrawberry treeOliveNew Zealand lacebarkWestern red cedarLawson cypressEnglish yewMediterranean cypressDawn redwoodMaidenhair treePalm treeProjectsPlanting a maidenhair tree in a container for a balcony or patioGrowing a tree from seedMaking a collage of preserved, colourful autumnal leaves in a picture frameTopiarising a bay tree into a standard ballCreating a multi-stemmed birchGrow your own Christmas tree to bring inside each yearEstablishing mistletoe in a garden treeFive hardworking trees for any small gardenBuilding an ecological pile in the garden from old logs and branchesMaking a bee hotelAgeing an oak tree and measuring the height without technologyResearching and finding an old veteran tree in a local garden, park or graveyardTroubleshootingWhat to do when