The Plane Trees Of London
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- Опубликовано: 18 авг 2019
- Ever noticed London's natural icon - the plane tree?
Without it - and its amazing bark - our city would be a far more polluted place.
Read more about contributor Paul Wood here: thestreettree.com/about/
Cannot imagine the London scene without its London Planes. They are one of the most beautiful aspects of London.
...what a wonderful little video of a often over-looked feature of London ...now perhaps a venture could be started to plant a plane-tree for every plane flight over London.
Had great fun as a kid on the Brunswick plane tree
The poet, Amy Levy, wrote a very moving poem about the plane tree in Wood Street. Ends, "The plane tree loves the town".
Interesting. Thanks. Do some more.
Thank you for introducing me to this tree... I have lived in London for years and only today learnt about these fascinating trees.
They're all over parts of NW6. In the storm of October '87 only one plane tree came down in our street. The problem was half the street came up with it so entrenched were the roots!
Love the videos! Nice to learn something new!
Fantastic guys😃👍🇦🇺❤️
Very interesting video - One of the hidden, or at least most overlooked, features of London. Although I'm no horticulturalist, I do have a thing for interesting looking old trees as I walk around the city and tales they must have to tell. Maybe an "interesting trees" of London video could be good! :)
We had these trees all over the playground at my primary school in Johannesburg, South Africa!
And not to forget the London plane tree outside The Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane. Spent a memorable weekend there a few years back. The view across the park was fantastic and its true what they say about the soundproofing. My partner's mum and gran were next door and, well, modesty forbids...
Back in the day I was a tree surgeon in London. My abiding memory when working on Plane trees was the thick hairy layer of dust on the back of leaves which caused sometimes quite servere coughing and choking. Now I do not maintain these trees I can fully appreciate their majestic stature.
Amazing trees that hide in plain sight. If you grow up with them then you never notice them. I only really noticed them when I happened to be in Battery Park in New York where there are few of them and they are treated like exotic trees and have small name plaques to say what they are. There are some similar trees in Central Park, but when I asked some fella what the name of the tree was, he just said, "I dunno".
I remember a few of these being taken out in the 1987 storm in London when I lived at the top of a hill in New Cross. They fell like dominoes because the street was lined up with the storm.
I'm getting a bit old now and have come to terms with the fact that I will never have a garden large enough to grow one of these trees!
“ Dangly balls” does it for me. Well done Londonist
, ever interesting
Thats where conkers come from, right? or is that another tree..
@@a.w.abbasi No, conkers come from Horse Chestnut trees..........which are very different!
Plane tree: you like my hairy dangly balls don't you?
BTW, the London plane tree is one of the most common trees in NYC and is actually the leaf on the logo of the New York Parks Department.
Do they call them London plane trees there?
@@seansmith445Officially we do call them London plane trees here! They’re also one of the most common trees in NYC, but it’s much more common to hear people mistakenly refer to them as sycamore trees
@@stefano3202 Sycamore trees are their proper name though aren’t they?
@@seansmith445 in a way yes, it is a hybrid of an oriental plane/old world sycamore and an American sycamore, but you would never refer to it as a sycamore tree.
Kinda how you wouldn’t refer to a labradoodle as a Labrador retriever
I like trees
Very good video
We used to call them "itchy ball trees" as a kid cos we used to break up the seed balls and stick them down each others shirts or jumpers
My 7 year old son just said pretty much the same thing!
@@Oldf0x good to see old London traditions continuing
I did that with rosehips at school once and got in a lot of trouble. Still, it was funny at the time.
Thank you. Now I know more.
My second favourite trees in general. When will you show us London poplars?
Also known as Lace wood trees because of the pattern found in the timber if cut in a certain way.
I love trees
Beautiful trees. Out local streets in South East London are lined with them and residents have being donating money to have those which have been lost replaced. The video could have mentioned the origin of the tree. It is a hybrid species and whilst some non-Londoners might claim it to have originated in Spain, all good people will know that it should be attributed to John Tradescant and Vauxhall Gardens. Not that I am biased, of course.
Good video bro keep up the good work
The police tribute 'The Beat', in the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas in Staffordshire, is an avenue of London plane trees and some Horse Chestnuts, funded by every Police Force in the UK. Chestnuts were also chosen because the first truncheons were made from this extremely durable wood.
So his surname is Wood, and he writes a book titled: ‘London is a forest’?
Nominative determinism!
@@satyris410 Trust me. He's heard it before ;-)
And the plane tree restricting development is in ...yep...wood street or road ...welcome to the matrix.
It’s not just the people with hay fever that curse the pollen from these lovely trees, it is a highly aggressive pollen which can affect many non-hay fever sufferers.
Once there was an event in St James’ Park (Horseguards Parade) and many members of the public, and police officers alike had to be evacuated out of the park due to the pollen. Many were not hay fever sufferers.
They smell wonderful after a rainfall.
Just Googled it after coming across them in Charles Dickens A tale of two cities, ended up here, interesting :-)
Tree life...🌲🌳🤔🔝👌
This is far better than the usual crap The Londonist has been putting out recently.
You don't like zany hats and glorified adverts? There's no pleasing some people... :P
Plane Trees are also used in London as they are said to be especially resistant against pollution.
More importantly I think London Planes are hybrids unknown in the wild?
Yes, It’s a hybrid between the American Plane (aka Sycamore) and the Oriental Plane (from Europe and Asia).
We have lots of them here in New York City
Came here to say “Dangly balls” 😂🤣
Need more videos about crazy golf.
You need to listen to London Plane by Big Big Train. (as well as Lost Rivers of London...)
there is quite a few in oxford st giles road
Those leaves look like Maple leafs in America
They're not closely related to true maples but, yes, the leaves are not dissimilar.
I got hit on the head by some sharp falling bark on Chiswick High Street. I guess it must have been a Plane tree.
U missed out telling us about the history behind the tree, and even why it is called a London Plane
The street tree of Melbourne, Australia.
Nobody:
1870s Londoners: OH MY DAYS HAVE YOU SEEN THESE FUCKING TREES!?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yup. That’s definitely Laurence’s brother Matt.
It definitely is.
The "planest" video Londonist has ever made...
John Airey ) I hear bargain hunt are after you ...🤣
maybe you should do a collaborate with Kew Gardens
Plant MORE
My life is in tatters
#Kashmir #chinars
After a scare about sexual assaults some years ago, all the plane trees on the campus of the University of Illinois were cut down. Most were big enough to hide behind...
he mentions the asian planetree but not the american planetree, both of which MAKE the LONDON PLANETREE HYBRID
nice.... but this tree is planted in every mayor city in the world because its one who is one of the strongest and can survive the urban environment with all his polution. So I like London but this one is over the top. Its even planted in Haarlem in The Netherlands.
London is the greenest city on earth, and they were planted here first. So it is important that other cities took what London did and applied it to their own cities. Why do you think most other cities adopted it?
Yes, but we're claiming it as an icon of London because it is known internationally (at least in Commonwealth countries) as 'the London plane tree'.
All very well, good for shade and have a certain elegance. But the plane is a hybrid of two species neither of which is native here and does bugger all for wildlife.
666th view
Video has 641 views
@@staszekr03 Back then it shown 666 for me..
Yes but 641 is less than 666
That's my point
If there's no Geoff Marshall u wont get any views
I hate them…I’m allergic to them.. cause me so much pain. I hope some virus wipes them out
Sorry, I had to give up watching and give you a -1. That "music" track of yours was needless and intrusive, and it made people's words needlessly hard to make out. In future, please, don't mix music and words, and, even better, if you must choose this poppy, rocky stuff, don't put it in your videos at all.