{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e7936fa0967e18a3a036684/604917fedfee6e23021666f0?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Oakes on Oaks: Introducing our 56(ish) Trees","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e7936fa0967e18a3a036684/1616686944525-ab904c48baa5d86d7df6ed3babf35487.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In season three of Trees A Crowd, David Oakes uproots the secrets and stories beneath the native tree species of the British Isles.</p><p><br></p><p>Each week for the next few months, Oakes is going to be exploring our trees - from Scots Pine to Privet; Box, Beech and the Buckthorns; Wild cherries, wild pears and wild apples; Ash, Aspen, Alder, Elder and Elm... and many more (56 of them to be precise-ish!)</p><p><br></p><p>But what is a Native Tree? Firstly, by <em>'tree'</em> he means a woody plant that can, in the wild, reach at least 5m in height, and; secondly, by '<em>Native'</em>, he means a plant that has arrived naturally in Great Britain and Ireland since the last ice age - 11,700(ish) years ago.</p><p><br></p><p>A new episode will be dropped each tuesday throughout 2021... (ish).</p>","author_name":"David Oakes"}