It appears that your tree is suffering from a common fungal disease called horse chestnut leaf blotch. Several of the Garden’s horse chestnuts show signs of this same disease. This year’s ...

Over the past few years newspaper headlines suggesting that various alien invaders are decimating the British horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) and that all affected trees should be removed ...

Q: I love horse-chestnut trees. Are they hard to grow? A: Not if you have plenty of room and don’t mind cleaning up after them in autumn. The common horse-chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum ...

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Conkers in their cases fall in September with the first recorded game using the nut of the tree taking place in 1848. While the red horse chestnut is as beautiful as the common white variety ...

Do you enjoy the huge old trees in Edmonds? Do the massive aged cedars still standing give you a sense of awe? Are you amazed ...

RUPERT BROOKE. THE horse-chestnut tree is not indigenous to Great Britain but was introduced in the middle of the sixteenth century; there is some doubt as to its origin, but the general opinion ...

A LARGE horse chestnut tree looks set to be saved from potentially being felled and protected for years to come. A temporary tree preservation order on the tree, which sits on Alexandra Road ...

Native to southeastern Europe, the horse chestnut tree produces bitter, toxic seeds. The tree grows from 50 to 75 feet tall and produces white flowers in the spring. Horse chestnuts are poisonous ...

Hardy campaigners have spent five days and nights camping out under ‘Harry’ the horse chestnut tree to stop it from being chopped down. And they’ve vowed to continue “for as long as it takes” to win ...