Welcome to Grow Back Together
All of our Grow Back Together Trees for GBT Round 1 have now been planted! Stay tuned for more rounds coming your way soon...
Grow Back Together aims to breathe life back into the vacant tree pits of Lewisham — in locations where they are needed most.
Our project focuses on areas identified at high climate risk — those with lowest air quality, highest flood risk and lowest number of trees (canopy cover).
Grow Back Together is a street tree planting project run by Street Trees for Living, Greentalk and Lewisham Council and supported by the Mayor of London.
To start the year off, the Winter Flowering Cherry takes centre stage...
People are often fooled into thinking that global warming causes these trees to flower in the depths of winter, but they are supposed to flower now. In fact, they flower from November all the way through to April. They are Winter flowering cherries (Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis'). There are two cultivars to see, one with white flowers ('Autumnalis'), and another with pink flowers ('Autumnalis Rosea').
Flowering can be a little hit and miss, they like it when the weather is milder, so you may not see many flowers if there's been snow or a frost.
Why not seek out some Winter Flowering Cherries for yourself, you can find them all over London.
