Tree Hunting

Discover the ultimate urban tree-spotter’s guide The Rebel Tree. The Climber’s Lime. The Ecclesiastical Pear. In Tree Hunting , Paul Wood seeks out the best individual trees – the most charismatic, quirky or downright spectacular – that grow in Britain and Ireland's towns, cities and villages (and, in one case, from the crack in a church steeple). From a stumpy sycamore in Shetland, contorted by wind and hard weather, to the shining jewel in Brighton’s unlikely treasure trove of elms, Paul trave