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To Queen Mary’s Uncover Refurbished in 2006, the Green Flag Award winning Gate Entrance your Dulwich Park covers 29 hectares and is packed with historic features, exciting facilities and perfect picnic spots.

www.southwark.gov.uk/parks Dulwich Park trail

Stop 01 Stop 02 Stop 03 Stop 04 Stop 05 Stop 06 Stop 08 Oak trees Drought tolerant garden Waterbirds Turkey oak Wildlife conservation Winter garden East Lawns Dulwich Park opened its Walk straight ahead until Leave the drought tolerant Using the map directions Walk to the wildlife Walk past the bowling Walk to the East Lawns, close gates on 26 June 1890. Some you arrive at the drought garden and follow the leave the boardwalk and conservation area. Many tiny green to the winter garden. your eyes and see how many of Robert Browning’s poems tolerant garden. Can you map directions along the follow the trail to the Turkey animals live in the cracks and What do the tree leaves birds you can hear. Walter were inspired by walking in find any lizards hidden in boardwalk over the water. Oak tree. This Turkey oak crevices of dead wood. If it’s look like? Are they large, Besant once described a walk the Dulwich Woods near his the garden? Look in the Look for places where is one of the great trees of summer look out for the male curved, long or needle- from Dulwich through the home in . John wooden posts and ceramic water birds might nest. . What do you think stag beetle with large antler like? What can you hear woods to Penge in 1899 as Ruskin, the great Victorian tiles. Lizards like warm, What materials do they makes it a remarkable tree? shaped jaws. South London under the trees? Are the ‘a cathedral of singing birds’. writer, thinker and artist, lived dry habitats. Many of the use for their nests? Can Do you have a favourite tree is an important breeding leaves still on the trees Today you’ll still find a rich most of his life on . plants in this garden come you see them easily or are you like to walk past, look site for these endangered in winter? There are two community of singing birds This trail begins at College from the Mediterranean they hidden? A very special at and sit under? Even dead beetles. You may also find the types of coniferous species here. Gate. Follow the path to and have oils like lavender bird on the lake is the little trees are good for wildlife, common field grasshopper. here; Lawson cypress and the boating lake and read to stop them drying out in grebe. In spring you maybe as you can see at the Listen to their chirruping call. English yew. Very shy birds Stop 09 the sign between the two the hot sun, or soft, silky, lucky enough to see their wildlife conservation area. Do they call with their mouths such as tree creepers, tiny Cafe shelters facing it. The 1907 furry leaves like lamb’s ear courtship rituals or spot or make the noise by rubbing goldcrests, and firecrests to protect them. their nest under the trees their legs together? Watch live in and near these trees. Finally on your way to photo shows two oak trees the Cafe, it is worth that are still standing today. on the lake. Surrounding out for spiders and their you, on each side of the webs glistening in the early Stop 07 remembering that due to Can you find them? Imagine food shortages during World the different families that bridge, are some quite tall mornings of autumn. Listen American garden plants, carefully feel their for the ‘yaffling’ call of green War two, Dulwich Park was have walked past these trees Walk to the American garden. used for allotments and over the centuries. If you stems and use this rhyme woodpeckers, which sounds In May, you can enjoy the to decide what type of like they are laughing at you. horticultural lessons. Today listen very carefully you might flamboyant show of colour the park provides a special hear laughter on the wind. plant they are: ‘Sedges have They are a vibrant green with when the rhododendrons are edges, Rushes are round’. a splash of red on their heads. place for south London flowering. families to enjoy nature.

stop 06 stop 04 Tree creeper Turkey Oak

stop 02 Picture of ceramic tiles – lizard stop 01 Robert Browning

stop 05 stop 03 Beetle Larvae Common Yellow-sedge

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