This is the millionth tree of the Countryside Commission's Task Force Tree Programme, Following the October 1987 Storm. Planted in April 1990 by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher, FRS, MP.
SW1, Victoria Embankment Gardens
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Millionth Tree - Victoria Embankment Gardens
In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Millionth Tree - Victoria Embankment Gardens
Prime Minister: 1979 - 1990. Born Grantham. MP for Finchley: 1959 - 1992. A M...
28th November 1987 The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Russell, planted the first replacement tree, a Ginkgo Biloba (Maide...
2015: we read that this horse chestnut has suffered rot and the Highgate Society has replaced it with a beech tree.
The RHS describes this tree: "Liquidambar are deciduous trees grown for their alternate, maple-like leaves which take on brilliant and lo...
Tilla platyphyllos (broad leaved lime) planted by The Right Hon. The Lord Mayor Sir Hugh Wontner, CVO, D.Litt. On 8 February 1974 to comm...
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