A cedar that The Beatles climbed, an oak featured in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and a beech from the final scenes of 1917 are among the shortlist for the Woodland Trust's Tree of the Year competition.

Driving along Manor Road toward Rockland Avenue, through the Greenbelt, I noticed the number of young beech trees growing in the woodlands alongside the road. Beech trees are easy to spot at this time ...

After celebrating the beauties of his twin subjects (the "quiet, pale" ash and the beech's "voluptuous grace"), Mabey gets stuck into the virulent spectre of ash dieback disease. Is it a catastrophe?

For creators of 18th-century landscapes the beech was indispensable. No other tree produces a woodland of towering branchless boles as straight as cathedral pillars or, if planted singly, such a huge ...

The beech tree has a multitude of uses in making our gardens glow THE common beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) is one of our best native trees. Not only does it grow into a large beautiful tree, it also ...

In the early hours of Friday, 16 October 1987, landscapes across the south-eastern corner of England were lost forever. In a few hours, gusts of wind exceeding 100mph (160 km/h /70 knots) battered ...

Respiratory rates (oxygen consumption) of thirty-six species of mites from beech-woodland leaf-litter were measured at 10°C in a Cartesian Diver. The first published information on the respiratory ...