Of the roughly two hundred trees Zwolle's council lists in Park 't Engelse Werk, one is a silver lime. The rest run to common limes and beeches by the dozen, which is what makes this one worth finding. Stand under it on a breezy day and the leaves flip to show their felted, silvery undersides, something none of its neighbours can do. The national monumental tree register records a silver lime near the footbridge in the southern part of the park, planted between 1900 and 1910, which puts it at around 120 years old. The council's own list of special trees records a silver lime in the park planted in 1907. Since it is the only one on that list, it is very probably this tree, though the council gives no coordinate to prove it. The park is much older than the lime. It was laid out between 1828 and 1830 in the English landscape style, probably by Hendrik van Lunteren, over the remains of 17th-century fortifications built on the advice of the military engineer Menno van Coehoorn. A brick tunnel from those works still survives in the grounds, and the whole park is now a national monument. It is Zwolle's oldest park and its busiest, running out to the Spoolderbos. Nobody has published a girth or height for this tree yet. If you pass it with a tape measure, tell us what you find.
Near the footbridge in the southern part of Park 't Engelse Werk, Zwolle You can recognise it by the leaves, silvery underneath, which flash pale when the wind turns them. It stands near the footbridge in the southern part of the park, about 45 metres from the copper beech by the water.
Free. Park 't Engelse Werk is a 16-hectare public walking park owned by the municipality (gemeente Zwolle), open at all times; the national register itself records this tree as visitable (visitable: ja).
About 1.8 km southwest of Zwolle station, roughly 23 minutes on foot.