The Crimean Limes of Fog Lane Park

The survey's own words are that these huge specimens are of national importance, and the word doing the work is the plural. There is more than one, they stand together in a suburban park in Didsbury, and the man who wrote that sentence, Owen Johnson, wrote the Collins Tree Guide. Nobody has counted them in print, nobody has measured them in print, and nobody has dated them. So this entry is the group, because the group is what a visitor goes to see. Crimean lime is a hybrid, planted across northern European cities for a practical reason: it drops far less of the sticky honeydew that makes a common lime a bad thing to park a car under. It is a street tree in most places. Reaching a size worth calling nationally important is not what it usually does. Fog Lane Park is free and open in daylight, an ordinary local park in south Manchester with an unusually good set of mature trees in it. The pin marks the park rather than the limes, because no source places them within it, and one source is all there is. If you walk it, tell us how many there are and where they stand. Nobody appears to have written that down.