On Wednesday 18 March the landscape students of year 2 visited Hillier Tree Nurseries at their 500 acre site in Hampshire. It was originally arranged for the week of London's snow but rescheduled to March which turned out to be the most glorious 17degree wander in the spring sunshine. 
Caroline Swann, Landscape architect and Marketing manager and James Alexander kindly showed us around. We got to see how so many of London's and the UK's trees are grown, from fields of large specimen trees, sculptured multistems and architectural shaped trees of every form, all the bare root trees, root balled, and container grown varieties, getting a real understanding of how these are grown.
We got some tips on how to specify 8 key trees just by looking at their twigs and also see their tree cloning techniques. It was a really inspirational day.
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