Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Gardens lasted until 2011, when it was felled due to disease. The following tree species were recorded in the gardens at the end of the 20th century: ash ("Fraxinus excelsior"), beech, black poplar ("Populus nigra"), cherry ("Prunus avium"), common lime ("Tilia × europaea"), English elm ("Ulmus minor" 'Atinia'), hawthorn ("Crataegus monogyna"), holly, horse chestnut ("Aesculus hippocastanum"), laburnum ("Laburnum anagyroides"), Norway maple ("Acer platanoides"), oak ("Quercus robur"), rowan ("Sorbus aucuparia"), silver birch ("Betula pendula"), small leafed lime ("Tilia cordata"), sweet chestnut ("Castanea sativa"), sycamore ("Acer pseudoplatanus"), tulip tree ("Liriodendron tulipifera"), whitebeam ("Sorbus aria"), white poplar ("Populus alba"), and wych elm ("Ulmus glabra").
Fraxinus excelsior narrow crown. The bark is smooth and pale grey on young trees, becoming thick and vertically fissured on old trees. The shoots are stout, greenish-grey, with jet black buds (which distinguish it from most other ash species, which have grey or brown buds). The leaves are opposite, long, pinnately compound, with 7–13 leaflets with coarsely serrated margins, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, long and broad and sessile on the leaf rachis. There are no stipules. These features distinguish ash from mountain ash ("Sorbus aucuparia") in which the leaves are alternate with paired stipules. The leaves are often among the last to