By Andrew Wood, Bulletin 3/2025, May

Time Rings, installed in 1998 under the Council’s City Art program (Photo: Mark Pokorny)

The City asked the Society to provide details of any additional trees that could be included in its updated 2025 Register of Significant Trees for our suburb. Four members of the Society and a local resident provided information about 12 multiple or individual trees in Glebe and Forest Lodge that could be included in the Register. Please see submissions dated 6 April 2025 and 11 April 2025.

Of particular importance were the recommendations to include:

  • The eight Port Jackson Figs (Ficus rubiginosa; the ‘time rings’ trees) on the Annandale side of the Bicentennial Park 
  • The 13 native trees, including six different species, on Lot 1 DP1094772, a 675 sqm triangle of land between the rear of the Strata Building at 77-85 Hereford Street and Alfred Road, Forest Lodge (photo 2)
  • The massed plantings of native trees in Lew Hoad Reserve in Minogue Crescent, Forest Lodge.
    Triangle of land with 13 native trees near 77-85 Hereford St and Alfred Rd, Forest Lodge (SIX Maps)