Know what's growing
at your place
Identification guides to the trees Jordan sees most across Melbourne's bayside and inner east: what to look for in the bark, leaves and form, where each species turns up, and the stories behind them. Put a name to your tree, and if you can't, a couple of photos in the quote form is all Jordan needs. What a tree needs is always assessed in person.
Garden & avenue classics
The exotics that built the leafy east: planted by the Victorians and Edwardians, now grown into the avenues and garden giants of Stonnington and Boroondara.
London Plane
Platanus × acerifolia
Melbourne's most planted street tree, with camouflage bark and winter seed balls.
Elm
Ulmus procera & cultivars
One of the world's last great elm populations, and Melbourne has it.
English Oak
Quercus robur
The estate tree: massive, spreading, and often older than the house beside it.
Claret Ash
Fraxinus angustifolia 'Raywood'
The tree behind Melbourne's deep-red autumns, raised in Australia before it went global.
Liquidambar
Liquidambar styraciflua
Star-shaped leaves and every autumn colour at once, on the same tree.
Backyard & hedge favourites
The trees on real quotes every week: front-garden features, driveway rows and the screens along boundary fences.
Crepe Myrtle
Lagerstroemia indica
Crinkled summer flowers and smooth, sculptural trunks in front gardens everywhere.
Ornamental Pear
Pyrus calleryana
White spring blossom and tidy teardrop crowns on half of Melbourne's new driveways.
Tulip Tree
Liriodendron tulipifera
The squared-off leaf no other tree has, and tulip flowers hiding in the crown.
Blueberry Ash
Elaeocarpus reticulatus
Fringed bell flowers, bright blue berries and the native answer to a boundary screen.
Natives & coastal icons
The trees that were here first, and the salt-hardy icons of the bayside foreshore from Brighton to Sandringham.
River Red Gum
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
The Yarra's giants: some were old trees before the suburbs existed.
Norfolk Island Pine
Araucaria heterophylla
The bayside's living lighthouses: perfectly tiered and visible from the water.
Coastal Banksia
Banksia integrifolia
Silver-backed leaves and honey-scented flower spikes on the clifftops.
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