Tree Walks
in Alexandra Park
The first Tree Walks in Alexandra Park were conceived, prepared and sponsored early in the century by the Friends of Alexandra Park, with advice from Dr Owen Johnson MBE (author of Collin Tree Guides , and Alexandra Park’s tree guide when there are extra guided tree walk events). The Friends have also sponsored the labelling of the trees on the Walks, and replacement and additional labels since then. In 2024 the Walks were revised and extended, with new text by Dr Owen Johnson MBE (read more about him on Wikipedia). They are sponsored by the Alexandra Park Greenhouse Group and by the Friends of Alexandra Park.
Click and download a copy of the Tree Walks info and map of the several walks you can do in Alexandra Park, Hastings UK leaflet guide. Design and production byHastings Borough Council - February 2024. Photographs by Dr Owen Johnson, Bob Mazzer & Chris Parker. Printed locally on paper from sustainable sources.
Alexandra Park is famed for its arboretum (tree collection) as it has one of the best collections of trees in Britain. Many of the large and beautiful trees in the park are regarded as 'champions'.
For those who live close by, it is easy to forget that Alexandra Park is one of the most important public parks in Britain, both for its history and in particular for the scale of its collection of rare trees.
Since 2015, Hastings Borough Council and the Friends of Alexandra Park have enthusiastically supported the acquisition of many particularly unusual trees which, while not featured individually in these Tree Walks, may provide the Park’s future champions. A ‘champion tree’ is the largest or tallest of its kind; in 2024, Alexandra Park had 77 county champions for East Sussex and nine champions for the whole of Britain and Ireland – more than any other public park in England.
Dr Owen Johnson MBE (author of Collin Tree Guides and Alexandra Park’s tree guide when there are extra guided tree walk events)
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Ask The Trees
Project
About the Project
Ask the Trees is a collaborative filmmaking project created by filmmaker Rebecca E Marshall, (Dear Future Films). Created from phone footage shot by sixteen new filmmakers, the films celebrate the simple act of noticing trees in Alexandra Park, Hastings — the texture of bark, movement of leaves, shifting light through branches.
Rooted in place and poetry, the project invites us to slow down and reconnect with the small, often overlooked details of the natural world.
Say Hello to the Trees
This series of film-poems celebrates eight trees growing in our local park. Each tree originates from a different part of the world — Australia, the Mediterranean, Ireland, China, Tasmania, the American Northwest, and the UK — reflecting the global roots woven into our local landscape.
To find out more visit: https://askthetrees.world
