TREES FOR THE FUTURE
Join us for the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust Winter Lecture to learn how our changing climate affects the health of our existing trees, and the choices we make when planting for the future.
Our special guest speakers:
Keith Sacre, Barcham Trees
Barcham Trees is the largest container tree nursery in Europe. Keith came to the industry following several years managing and developing public open space in the local authority sector. Keith will speak about different species, age, size, genetics, and what trees we should be looking at in the future.
Dr. Samantha Dobbie, BiFoR
Samantha is the Learning & Engagement Lead for the Birmingham Institute for Forest Research (BiFoR). She will speak about one of the world’s largest climate change experiments taking place in a mature oak forest in Staffordshire. The decade-long experiment involves pumping CO2 around trees in the forest to simulate the levels predicted by 2050, and monitoring the trees’ responses, giving insight into how our mature trees will respond to increased levels of carbon in the atmosphere.
Join us at the Henrietta Barnett School main hall from 6pm on Tuesday 27 February for light refreshments ahead of the talk which will commence at 6.30pm.
Please let us know if you would like to attend via [email protected] or 0208 455 1066