Diary BookThe Diary never knew trees could be so interesting – until that is, Charles Mynors’ epic work, The Law of Trees, Forests and Hedgerows landed on our desk with a resounding thud.

The tome stretches to an incredible 680-pages – but then again, as former Kew Gardens director Professor Sir Ghillean Prance observes in his foreword, trees can be very litigious, so to speak.