If you have a garden and the necessary space, the Dulwich Estate has published some useful tips from John Welton, a local arborist, about planting small trees. There is still time to get planting this year whilst the mild autumn continues.

The following trees are particularly recommended:

• Rowan (sorbus aucuparia) - spring white flowers, orange autumn fruits and leaf colour.
• Hawthorn (crataegus monogyna) - white spring flowers and red autumn berries with leaf colour.
• Bird Cherry (prunus padus) - white racemes of almond scented flowers.
• Cornelian Cherry (cornus mas) - tiny yellow flowers before leaves in February and fruits in August.
• Cotoneaster Lacteus - evergreen small tree or large shrub with flowers in spring and masses of berries in autumn.