In the last week, a group of bowlers had a lucky escape when a tree crashed down onto a green. A few days later, an MP in the House of Commons revealed a mature tree had fallen on her house. So could this be linked to the recent soaring temperatures?

Trees can really suffer during a heatwave and the heat stress can show in lots of different ways.

It can affect processes on a molecular level, right up to the biology of the whole tree itself.