[sw104]

Not to one-up you, but Sheffield in South Yorkshire has even more trees. I visited recently and was taken aback by how much coverage there was for a city center, coming from Leeds, which seems to hate trees.

If I remember correctly, London has around 8.5 million trees (for a population of almost 9 million, 1:1 tree:person) and Sheffield has around 4.5 million (for a much smaller population of less than 600,000, 7.5:1 tree:person). Sheffield has more trees per person than any other city in Europe.

Sheffield council tried to cut down thousands of trees a few years ago and it caused massive backlash, protests and arrests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_tree_felling_protest...

[switch007]

I can’t believe how long that saga went on!

Sheffield residents are rightly extremely proud of their city. The trees are absolutely wonderful and their numbers make Sheffield quite special. Good on the protestors!

[have_faith]

I just came across this: https://sheffieldtreemap.com/

More japanese cherry trees that I realised