Lewes Urban Arboretum

🦇 Brilliant Bats! 🦇 Drop in at #Lewes Climate Hub on Saturday 31st October to join us for our Brilliant #Bats Day! Open from 11.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. Free!

More hard work on #tree care from the NatureLinks group making a positive difference at Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes, today. Three of us were clearing around this Ilex latifolia, a rare and unusual Holly. Hopefully the before and after pictures show the difference!

Exciting morning, taking delivery of the 30 #trees we will be planting in #Lewes in November and December. Keep following us to find out where their new homes will be!

Lewes #Swift Supporters will have an activity stall at #Lewes STEM Festival on 15th November at the Town Hall. Come along and see us!

Exciting morning, taking delivery of the 30 #trees we will be planting in #Lewes in November and December. Keep following us to find out where their new homes will be!

More hard work on #tree care from the NatureLinks group making a positive difference at Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes, today. Three of us were clearing around this Ilex latifolia, a rare and unusual Holly. Hopefully the before and after pictures show the difference!

🦇 Brilliant Bats! 🦇 Drop in at #Lewes Climate Hub on Saturday 31st October to join us for our Brilliant #Bats Day! Open from 11.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. Free!

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In Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes, and at The Pells today to measure trees for our #tree inventory. Here are some: Quercus frainetto, Hungarian Oak, 64.7 cm diameter; Fraxinus angustifolia, Narrow-leaved Ash, 72 cm diameter; Betula x Koehnei, Hybrid Birch, 32 cm diameter.

Fantastic work by the NatureLinks group from the Railway Land today during our first work experience session at Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes. With eight young people and their helpers , Matt and Wendy, we cleared and mulched around 17 of the #trees . Thank you to everyone!

Bat Day at @LewesClimateHub on Saturday 31st October! Crafts, talk, information and Bat biscuits! Open 11-3 and all free!

🌳Pop in to the Town Hall foyer this week to find out more about the Rights of Trees Charter for Lewes! 🌳Have a look at the "special #trees " shared by members of the community! 🌳 Pick up information about #Lewes tree trails and adventures on the Railway Land!

Lots of berries on the #trees in the wildlife hedge that we planted at Jubilee Gardens in 2021 with the support of #Lewes District Council and South Downs National Park Trust - Rowan, Hawthorn and Spindle.

Beautiful bark on this Pine #tree on the Railway Land, #Lewes

Large shining berries on this Cockspurthorn in Malling Recreation Ground, #Lewes . It is one of a group of five that are identified on the British #Tree Register as Crataegus x grignonensis, (Grignon's Cockspurthorn), and one is recorded as the County Champion of East Sussex!

We had a lovely welcome on our visit to LOGS Junior School this morning - to explain the work of the #Lewes Urban Arboretum team, tell them about the #trees that we planted outside their school, and to share news about the Rights of our Trees Charter for Lewes.

Weeding and renewing the strimmer guards this morning on the #trees we planted in Prince Edwards Road, Gundreda Road, and Ferrers Road, #Lewes. Lovely weather for it!

Hundreds of berries are beginning to turn red on the three Whitebeam #trees we planted alongside Abergavenny Road, #Lewes. These are three of the native "Trees for Birds" that we planted there in 2015.

So many berries on the wildlife #hedge that we planted at the bottom of #Lewes Cemetery in 2021, funded by #Beelines, with the support of Lewes District Council. Here are some of them - Hawthorn berries, Blackthorn sloes, Rose hips, and Guelder Rose berries.

🦇 Bat Day at #Lewes Climate Hub! 🦇 October 31st, 11-3 🦇 Free talk and activities for all ages! Picture of a Pipistrelle by L. Campbell

New things at Malling Deanery Arboretum,#Lewes, today - two fruits on the Handkerchief #Tree and ripening berries on both the Bee-bee Tree and the Japanese Raisin Tree, and the Swamp Cypress by the river was developing autumn colours.

The red berries and creamy white flowers of White Bryony - climbing over a Hawthorn #tree and hedge in Ham Lane, #Lewes.

Weeding the three Elms and the two Cockspurthorn #trees that we planted by Brighton Road, #Lewes, in 2023.

A huge crop of red berries on the Cockspurthorn #trees we planted in Gundreda Road, #Lewes, in 2021 and lots of fruits on the Hop Hornbeams we planted at the same time.

Thank you to Lewes Town Council for their unanimous approval of the #Tree Charter for #Lewes!

Autumn changes on three of the #trees that we planted in Prince Edward's Road, #Lewes - berries on a Whitebeam, seeds on a Hornbeam, and fruits and reddening leaves on a Liquidambar.

"The Week" celebrating the Rights of our Trees Charter for Lewes, thank you!

Congratulations and kudos to the Lewes Town Council in East Sussex, England, for voting to recognize the rights of trees. 🌲 In June, Terrasse-Vaudreuil in Quebec became the first municipality in Canada to sign the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Still celebrating the Rights of our #Trees Charter for #Lewes!

Our second guided #tree walk around Malling Deanery Arboretum during #Lewes Heritage Open Days. A lovely group of people enjoyed listening and learning from the vast experience and knowledge of Peter Thurman.

Another fantastic guided tree walk around the Malling Deanery Arboretum yesterday! Peter Thurman shared fascinating facts about 32 of the special #trees in this private garden. We are very grateful to the owners for letting us enjoy this wonderful place in #Lewes !

Following the good news that the Rights of our Trees motion was approved by Lewes Town Council last night, here is a celebratory decorated version of the Tree Charter for Lewes. It was designed by the talented Lynda Durrant, fullcircle-design.co.uk

The Rights of our #Trees motion to #Lewes Town Council was approved at the full council meeting this evening! Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved. Drop in to Lewes Climate Hub on Saturday 12th or Sunday 13th September, 10- 5, to find out more about the agreed Tree Charter for Lewes.

The hollow Black Poplar #tree , Populus nigra, at Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes, and some of the interesting fungi inside and around it - possibly Poplar Fieldcap?

A walk around Malling Deanery Arboretum to check the route for our guided #tree walks during #Lewes Heritage Open Days this weekend. So much colour and variety!

Pop in to #Lewes Climate Hub on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September. Open from 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p m. as part of Heritage Open Days. 🌳 Find out more about the proposed #Tree Charter for Lewes. 🌳 Enjoy the photographs of "special trees" sent to us by residents of Lewes.

The most beautiful red berries on one of the Hawthorn #trees outside the Linklater Pavilion on the Railway Land nature reserve, #Lewes.

Thank you to #Lewes Climate Hub for sharing news of our exhibition of special #trees in their September newsletter! It is open at Lewes House, 10-3, on 12th and 13th September as part of the Heritage Open Days organised by Friends of Lewes. lewesclimatehub.org/exhibition-s...

A heavy crop of berries on the Wild Service #Trees in De Warrenne Road, #Lewes, after all the wonderful blossom in Spring!

A #Tree Charter for #Lewes? Find out more during our Heritage Open Days exhibition at Lewes Climate Hub on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September, 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. and enjoy the display of "special trees" chosen by members of our community!

Hundreds of berries on the three Whitebeams on the three Whitebeam #trees , (Sorbus aria 'Majestica'), that we planted alongside Abergavenny Road, #Lewes, in December 2016. They did have a wonderful display of blossoms in May!

Betula maximowicziana - one of many unusual #trees to see on our guided walks around Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September. Book a place via Eventbrite: Lewes Heritage Open Days 2026 – Friends of Lewes share.google/YifUktFdo9wz...

Booking for our guided #tree walks in #Lewes opens today! Lewes Heritage Open Days 2026 – Friends of Lewes share.google/5jV2bFOZ1SHF...

Acorns on the Lucombe Oak in Pells Recreation Ground, #Lewes. There are some lovely #trees in there!

Flowers on the Styphnolobium japonicum, (Japanese Pagoda #Tree), at Malling Deanery Arboretum. Booking opens on 20th August for our two guided tree walks there during #Lewes Heritage Open Days, 12th and 13th September, 2.30-4.30 p.m.

Lots of chestnuts on this Sweet Chestnut #tree in Baxter's Field, #Lewes!

Heritage Open Days, organised by Friends of Lewes, on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September. Booking opens on 20th August for our guided tree walks around Malling Deanery Arboretum, 2.30-4.30 p.m. each day! friends-of-lewes.org.uk/hod2026/?fbc...

Two #Swifts were flying above De Montfort Road, #Lewes, tonight and we saw one enter the same box as last night again. Piers saw two flying over the reservoir in Western Road. We heard scratching from the box at our house just as we set out on our survey and one Swift peeked out.

Jersey Tiger Moth and bees - on the Bee-bee #tree , (Tetradium daniellii), at Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes, this morning. The whole tree was buzzing!

Trees for shade - information from the Tree Council. www.treesforcities.org/resources/ho...