WING Project suggested Tree List

 

WING ~ Street Tree planting list for Newington Green area

 
 

Tree                                                                            Environmental assets

 
                       

Bird cherry – prunus padus                                       Supports birds, bees & insects; Edible fruit

Crab apple – malus sylvestris                                    Local; 11 species birds; 90+ insect species; Nectar & pollen

                                                                                                                      
Field maple - acer campestre                                    Supports lichens, wide range of insects; Nectar & pollen

Gean (wild cherry) – prunus avium                                 Local; 11 Species birds; insects: Nectar, pollen, edible fruit
 
Hawthorn – crataegus monogyna                                Local; birds; 149 insect species; Nectar and fruit
 
Rowan – sorbus aurcuparia                                          Supports birds; 28 species of insects; Nectar, pollen, fruit
 
Serviceberry – amelanchier arborea                            Supports several moth species & birds: Edible fruit

                       
Service tree – prunus torminalis                                  Supports several insect species & birds; Edible fruit

                                                                                 
Small-leaved lime – tillia cordata                               Supports 31 Species insects; Nectar


Whitebeam – sorbus aria                                             Edible Fruit supports bird s; Nectar and pollen      

 
 

Local trees are found on the Natural History Museum Postcode Plant Database:

 

Other data taken from LBI Hackney tree list and:

 
 

http://www.right-trees.org.uk/