This is the question Indy asked the BBC GQT panel at RHS Hyde Hall Summer Garden Party August 2025. It was about the decline of garden clubs, and how clubs can adapt and recruit younger members.

What do you tree? (Apple version, pictures will show automatically on screen between chapters instead of in show notes)

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-Terms mentioned

Xylem tubes

The Tree Listening Project

Transpirational pull

Stomata

80-99% evaporation

Interception

Lichen

Sulphur dioxide, sulphur chips

Lidar technology.

Mycorrhizal fungi

WWW Wood wide web

-Terms coming soon

Chlorophyll

Grafting

Foreest bathing

Petrichor

VOC

Fermi paradox

Essential fatty acids

SOURCE:

https://treelistening.co.uk

https://purduelandscapereport.org/article/how-do-trees-use-water

https://princetontreecare.com/10-astounding-facts-about-trees

https://www.gardenersdream.co.uk/blogs/gardeners-dream-blog/how-many-trees-on-earth-are-there

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2115329119

https://www.lung.org/blog/2020-breathhttps://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/oxygen-tree

https://www.nibio.no/en/subjects/soil/mycorrhiza%E2%80%93the-roots-of-the-roots

Music: Epidemic Sounds

CHAPTERS (images will show automatically on screen between chapters)

00:00 Introduction

04:21 Start of Greenfulness

15:30 Lichen

31:08 Ladybird larva

Indy

www.TenderShoots.uk