@lewesarboretum.bsky.social
Trees Committee of Friends of Lewes - planting trees and looking after them - for us, for wildlife and to improve resilience to climate change. We are an accredited Arboretum Town!
Almost 200 #tree species recorded so far in #Lewes.
30.10.2025 08:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We're all set up at the Town Hall - ready for the Floods Event on Saturday 1st November, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
- explaining how the #trees of #Lewes play an important part in flood prevention.
Another surprise addition to our #tree inventory!
Tumbling gracefully over the wall of a garden in Rotten Row, #Lewes - Styphnolobium japonicum 'pendula', (Weeping Japanese Pagoda Tree).
Yesterday morning we had a lovely walk around #Lewes to map some more trees for our ongoing #tree inventory. With the expert guidance of Peter Thurman we recorded some real beauties, including this Red Oak, Quercus rubra, next to East Sussex College.
29.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful pomegranates on this Pomegranate #Tree in Grange Road, #Lewes!
28.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We've just unloaded some beautiful #trees from Barcham trees for planting in #Lewes next month. We look forward to showing you them properly when they are planted. Here are Quercus palustris, Malus Evereste, and Quercus robur.
27.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Every year I look forward to seeing the fiery Autumn colours of this Ash #tree on Malling Recreation Ground, #Lewes.
26.10.2025 08:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
There are some wonderful shiny berries on this Cockspurthorn #tree, (Crataegus persimilis prunifolia), that we planted at the edge of Nevill Green in November 2023. It was sponsored by #Lewes Footpaths Group in memory of John Vokins.
25.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A stunning Ginkgo biloba #tree in the front garden of a House in Barons Down Road, #Lewes. The gentleman who lives there was just coming out to mow the lawn and he said that his mother grew it over 20 years ago and gave it to him when it was only a few inches tall!
24.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Beautiful colours on this Liquidambar styraciflua Worplesdon #tree that we planted in Prince Edward's Road, #Lewes, in November 2021 - before the wind came!
23.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are very pleased to report that we have just received grant funding from Lewes Town Council!
The money will be used to fund our next #tree planting projects in #Lewes in November.
Thank you very much to LTC for their support of our Arboretum Town!
A Monarch Butterfly is resting on yellow flowers. The background is blurry green.
Monarch Butterfly
Cradled in gold...
The berries are ripening on this Whitebeam #tree with very large round leaves at the edge of St.Pancras School playground, #Lewes. Thank you to Peter Thurman for the ID - Sorbus thibetica 'John Mitchell'. Apparently the berries have a good flavour!
20.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our ancient woodland
My father told me that the wind helps the trees sing
And that if you listen carefully you will hear fragments of music familiar to you
I am currently surrounded by a symphony of my musical life, and it reminds me of him
A pot of gold in our garden in #Lewes - the little Pomegranate #Tree
18.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
two white stemmed fungi with whiter speckled black tops
Beautiful Magpie Inkcaps by Judas Art, posted on the Nature Table. So-called cos of its magpie-like black and white markings. The white spots are fragments of its original velum or veil. These are toxic. Look but don't touch. It's always best not to touch or disturb fungi - for your sake & its!
17.10.2025 06:16 — 👍 82 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 2
A lovely range of bright colours on this Norway Maple (?) #tree in #Lewes High Street - compared to during the summer when it looks quite dark and gloomy.
17.10.2025 07:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Toasty autumn colours on the special Maple #tree at the edge of The Paddock, #Lewes!
16.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Golden glow on the Pomegranate #tree at the bottom of School Hill, #Lewes, and a strangely twisted trunk.
Old photograph from 1914, and a letter from RHS that confirms it as Punicus granatum "Nana" - a dwarf double - flowered variety.
A fine crop of berries on the Cockspurthorn #tree in the pedestrian precinct, #Lewes!
14.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A log covered in fungi
We don’t line our paths with logs to make them look pretty, we are installing social housing
14.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 210 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Beautiful leaves and berries on this Whitebeam #tree in De Montfort Road, #Lewes!
09.10.2025 11:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The two Liquidambar styraciflua Worplesdon #trees that we planted in Valence Road, #Lewes, in December 2016 are just halfway through turning red - and showing a lovely range of colours!
08.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Autumn gold appearing on a favourite #tree - the fastigiate Hornbeam by Abergavenny Road, #Lewes.
07.10.2025 11:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Friends of Lewes Flood Exhibition to mark the 25th Anniversary of the 2000 Lewes #floods. Sat 11th and 18th and Sun 12th and 19th October, 11-4 at Fitzroy House, #Lewes. Photographs, films, and more to learn what we need to do now to make Lewes a more flood resilient place.
06.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very impressive Beech #tree on Cluny Estate, #Lewes!
03.10.2025 07:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We will be at this Floods Conference to share information about how our #trees help to prevent water run-off and flooding in #Lewes.
01.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A swan in a Kent river
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it
Shakespeare
London plane tree
London plane (Platanus x hispanica) - The Historic Dockyard Chatham, the Kingdom of Kent
The Dockyard built ships for the Royal Navy for several hundred years, and this tree is likely as old as the most famous of them all, built yards away from the tree. HMS Victory
Berries! The #trees are laden with them on Malling Down, #Lewes!
30.09.2025 14:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
