Cue Arb Code

Trees in the cloud - a local park has a new QR code tree trail, with dozens of natives and exotics to find. How hand held tree knowledge might help arborists, and us, in a changing climate.

How’s your tree-spotting knowledge? Could you find Yorkshire’s finest Italian Alder? And which young Sheffield trees would have been familiar to dinosaurs over 150 million years ago? I visited the new tree trail in Whirlow Brook Park to find out, and learned how new technology is showing us how trees might cope with the changing climate of the Outdoor C…