The Arboriculture and Urban Forestry programme covers a wide range of current arboriculture issues, including tree production and establishment in an urban environment, epidemic outbreaks of disease affecting trees, international developments in urban forestry, detection of decay in trees and the…

To cut or not to cut? That IS the question! Early autumn is the time of year that hedges are booked in for their annual trim, but how soon should you cut? Hedgerows require management to stay in shape, and good management practices keep hedgerows healthy and increase their longevity. But what is…

An introduction to lichens at Higham: we will look at what lichens are; how they “work”; and how we try to identify them. We will consider their ecology and the stories they can tell us about landscape and environmental history. Using specimens from Higham we will work through the keys for lichens…

An introductory course in which you will start to find out about the fascinating world of mosses and liverworts. Working with live specimens we will practise identifying the main groups and using a key to identify specimens to species level. We will use hand lenses and microscopes to appreciate the…