Trees and Tree Identification in Summer

A long weekend course for anyone who wants to learn how to recognise the trees around them. Summer is a great time for both broadleaves and conifers, when leaves and needles are at their best for identification and most tree species have already started producing their characteristic fruits and seeds. The types of bark, the buds and the shoot tips are also worth a closer look.

We will discuss the natural history of trees, what makes a tree a tree and how they are related to other plants. The main part of the course will be spent out in the field, visiting a range of different habitats and sites.

Using field ID characters you will quickly learn how to recognise individual species and how to tell similar species apart. The main emphasis will be on those trees native to Britain but we will also pay attention to introduced species, particularly conifers.

Andrea Kiewitt is a qualified biologist, botanist and ecologist and works as a research scientist for the Forestry Commission where she has been carrying out vegetation assessments in woodlands for many years.

She is a keen naturalist and as an inquisitive and enthusiastic tutor she has taught courses overseas and in the UK, both at university degree level and as part of general environmental education activities in the North York Moors National Park.

This will be her fifth year as a regular Associate Tutor at Flatford Mill.

‘Tutor very informative, enthusiastic and approachable’. Course participant May 2011.

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