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We're the charity that looks after London's eight Royal Parks. For serious incidents and emergencies please contact the police.
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As the leaves continue to fall, this may be the last colour in the parks until spring next year 🍂

📍 St James's Park, The Green Park and Hyde Park
Autumn trees with golden and green leaves in a park, with a blurred background of a cityscape, possibly indicating an urban park setting. Autumn leaves on trees in a park, with vibrant yellow foliage in the foreground and other trees in the background. Autumn foliage in Hyde Park, with sunlight filtering through trees showcasing a spectrum of yellow to orange leaves. A peaceful scene in a park with tall trees displaying autumn leaves, a few birds on the ground, and a distant figure walking near a bridge.
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Do not adjust your sets, we haven't fast-forwarded to spring - this a winter flowering cherry tree 🌸

This example can be found at The Dell in Hyde Park, but you'll also be able to see similar trees across the parks.
A sunlit cherry tree with blossoming flowers, surrounded by fallen leaves, set against a bright blue sky. Tall tree with autumn foliage standing under a clear blue sky, surrounded by a carpet of fallen leaves. Cherry blossom tree in bloom, illuminated by sunlight, with other trees and a grassy field in the background. A cherry tree in bloom under a clear blue sky.
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🌄 The low morning sunrise is a sight to behold at this time of year

📍 Bushy Park

📸 Lesley Marshall
Sunset over a scenic landscape in Bushy Park, with sun rays beaming through the trees and casting long shadows on the grassy ground.
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🍂 those colours 😍

📍 Hyde Park
Autumn foliage with vibrant orange and yellow leaves on trees in a park, bathed in sunlight.
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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This week the the national flag of Germany is flying alongside the Union Flag on The Mall in St James's Park 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

This is to mark the State Visit, with events taking place in Windsor, of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, accompanied by Frau Elke Büdenbender.
View of Buckingham Palace with Union Jack and German flags displayed along The Mall, with people and a vehicle visible. A row of alternating German flags and Union Jacks lining a tree-lined boulevard, with a distant view of Buckingham Palace in the background. Row of flags including the German flag and the Union Jack displayed along a street on a clear day.
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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😍 You hadn't seen perfection in a picture until now

📍 Pen Ponds, Richmond Park

📸 Sandy Preece
Tranquil landscape of a tree on a small island reflected in a calm lake under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Male mandarin duck in poor light, #bushypark @theroyalparks.bsky.social #Ducks #Birds
December 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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A magnificent ginkgo biloba showing stunning seasonal colours 🍂

📍 Greenwich Park

📸 Anna M and Mark W
View of a historic building in Greenwich Park surrounded by vibrant autumn foliage, under a clear blue sky. A vibrant tree with bright yellow leaves under a clear blue sky in a park setting. A vibrant ginkgo tree in full autumn color, with fallen yellow leaves scattered around it and a white building in the background.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Welcome to December ❄️

A month that takes us officially into winter and also offers a chance for reflection on the past year 🙌

📸 Lesley Marshall
Winter sunrise over a frost-covered Richmond Park featuring bare trees, a meandering stream, and illuminated grass.
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Today marks the end of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week 🌳

Across the 5,000 acres of the Royal Parks we have a staggering 170,000 trees!

Here our team name a few of their favourites 🌲

Watch on below to find out what they had to say 🔽
Trees of London's Royal Parks
There are more than 170,000 trees in the Royal Parks in London, some of the longest-lived and largest living things in the park landscapes. As the biggest plants on the planet, they give the city oxygen, store carbon, stabilise the soil and give life to...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Estimated to be 750 years old, this veteran oak tree is believed one of the oldest in Richmond Park 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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❄️ We had a small taste of winter this week before it warmed up again, but we'll no doubt be seeing cooler scenes like this across the parks again soon

📍 Bushy Park , Kensington Gardens, The Regent's Park and Richmond Park

📸 Lesley Marshall, Chris O'Donovan and Mark Laing
Winter scene at a serene lake in Bushy Park with swans and ducks swimming, surrounded by frost-covered trees under a clear blue sky. Sunrise over the Italian Gardens at Kensington Gardens, featuring a historic pavilion, ornate fountain, and silhouettes of bare trees. Snowfall blankets a walkway in The Regent's Park lined with benches and trees, with a person holding an umbrella walking in the distance. A misty winter landscape in Richmond Park featuring frost-covered grass, a curving pathway, and several bare trees enveloped in fog.
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Throughout The Green Park you'll find London plane trees standing tall. These urban warriors have an important role to play 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🫶 A whole lotta love for this season, perfectly emphasised by this natural occurrence in Richmond Park

📸 Lesley Marshall
View through a natural hole in a tree trunk, showcasing a vivid autumn landscape with golden leaves under a bright sky in Richmond Park.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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✨ Lighting up the London skyline

📍Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park

📸 The Big Ladder Photographer
Nighttime aerial view of Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, London, featuring a lit Ferris wheel and bustling fairgrounds.
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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On the boundary of The Regent's Park you'll see Dutch elm trees standing tall against the perimeter 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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If you head to Kensington Gardens you'll find a hidden legend, a field maple which is more than 250 years old 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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🥶 Cold enough for you this morning

📍 Richmond Park and Hyde Park

📸 Beautifully captured by Amanda Boardman, Nitish Raaj, Greg Packman and Cherrie Temasfieldt
A serene winter landscape at sunrise in Richmond Park, featuring bare trees along a frost-covered riverbank with sunlight reflecting on the water. A person walking down a frosty path near a river with a stunning sunrise in the background in Richmond Park. A person walking dogs on a frosty path in Hyde Park during sunrise, with sunlight casting a warm glow and trees lining the sides of the path. A serene winter sunrise over a frost-covered field with a Ferris wheel and other amusement attractions in the background at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland.
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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🍂 Letting leaves lie

📍 Hyde Park
Autumn leaves covering the ground in Hyde Park with trees in vibrant fall colours in the background, under a clear blue sky.
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Bouncing On Bracken #ShareMondays2025

A brief outing to #BushyPark brought a brief encounter with a little female #stonechat flitting about amongst the #bracken in the golden afternoon light @theroyalparks.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social #nature #wildlife #birding #autumncolours
In the right half of this landscape-aspect image is a golden-brown frond of bracken, rising vertically from the lower edge, bending halfway up its length under the weight of a small bird. It's a female stonechat, about the size and shape of a robin, blending perfectly into the colours and speckled textures of the Autumn bracken frond she perches on. She is in profile facing to the left with her back slightly turned towards the camera so that you can see the tips of both wings, held slightly behind her to aid her balance, along with her tail, which she was bobbing around and flaring while I watched her. She was busy bouncing from frond to frond, to the ground and popping back up again to feed on insects active in the warming sunshine. The background is a blurred mix of grass-green, rusty orange and hazy blue layers of shadow, that hint to a landscape of mixed grassland with bands of bracken crossing horizontally behind the subject. Here's the RSPB's description of a stonechat: Stonechats are robin-sized birds. Males have striking black heads with white around the side of their neck, orange-red breasts and a mottled brown back. Females have brown heads, brown backs and an orange tinge to their chests. Stonechats are frequently seen flicking their wings while perched, often doing so on the tops of low bushes. As its name suggests, these birds utter a sharp loud call that sounds like two stones being tapped together. They breed in western and southern parts of the UK, but spread out more widely in winter.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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This magnificent sweet chestnut tree has sat proudly for centuries in the Greenwich Park Flower Garden 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🧡 the colours this autumn 😍

📍 St. James's Park
Autumn foliage in vibrant yellows and reds with a cloudy sky overhead and a pathway partially visible.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Situated within the Hyde Park Rose Garden you'll find a giant of a tree which keeps an eye over this area of the park - a Caucasian Elm 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

#NationalTreeWeek
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🏞️ We're so lucky to be able to view parkland like this every day

📍 Richmond Park
Autumn landscape with two large trees on either side framing an area of Richmond Park under a clear sky.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Willow trees surround the lake in St James's Park - ready to welcome you into this park which sits in the heart of London 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

#NationalTreeWeek
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM