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A 'hidden' forest in the shape of a Celtic cross has emerged in Ireland

Living artwork was created by the late Irish forester Liam Emmery.

 

If you happen to be flying over County Donegal in the republic of Ireland, you may be astonished to see a beautiful arrangement of conifer trees in the shape of a Celtic cross growing on the ground below.

“It’s not just cutting patterns in your back garden," Gareth Austin, a gardening columnist for the Donegal Daily said. "This is horticultural engineering – we will be appreciating this for up to the next 70 years."

To pull off the beautiful design, measuring 330 feet long by 210 feet wide, two different species of trees were planted. Every autumn, the Celtic trees (likely composed of Eastern white pine) change their hue, while the surrounding species retains its dark green. The display went viral this fall after a particularly dry stretch of months made the colors contrast sharply. Airline passengers couldn't resist posting to social media about the mysterious cross. As shown in the video below, drone pilots quickly followed:

 

When a reporter for UTV Northern Ireland went to investigate, he discovered that the creative planting was the work of Irish forester Liam Emmery. Sadly, Emmery passed away six years ago at the age of 51. Until this year's dramatic display, his family had completely forgotten about the legacy he had planted on the hill behind their home.

“If he was here, we would have all heard about it because he would have been so proud,” Liam's wife, Norma Emmery, told The Irish Post. “He just loved things to be perfect. And I think the Celtic Cross is perfect for him.”

[Haironyourchest]

Donegal people are super-choill

[gobbypunk]

Wow thats just so cool more people shoud do things like it , ccol as

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Oh I wish you'd never posted this cos in a few years a huge penis of Pine trees will emerge in Kent!

 

About 3 miles from Mark Bolam's house.

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[scbk]

That celtic cross is a good one.

 

There's a big knob next to the M74 - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.4581116,-3.6454048,3a,18.7y,3.66h,90.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQgfoffs3E-eSmhMsjlbubQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

 

 

And a zigzag next to the A9 at Moy, I think the story is it was the guy's initials, a W or M, possibly part of it missing now though?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.383517,-4.0182916,1530m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

 

 

And a symbol in the heather in Aberdeenshire - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/57%C2%B010'31.1%22N+2%C2%B052'48.1%22W/@57.1857272,-2.8839739,1578a,20y,168.75h,37.06t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d57.1753083!4d-2.8800194?hl=en

[GardenKit]

 

 

And a symbol in the heather in Aberdeenshire - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/57%C2%B010'31.1%22N+2%C2%B052'48.1%22W/@57.1857272,-2.8839739,1578a,20y,168.75h,37.06t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d57.1753083!4d-2.8800194?hl=en

 

Thats really bunny

[Gray git]

Love it!

 

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[Firestorm]

ER written in the trees just upstream of Monmouth.

[10 Bears]

Here's a well known one local to me. Just on the back of the Howgills, off the M6 near Tebay - a nice 'love' heart...

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.3961738,-2.6008151,3a,44.1y,77.4h,87.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sg92-1YF2HpKFDMYtahavog!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

It was said to be planted as a token of love from a local farmer to his wife, but I've been in the woodland, and that gully up the side of the hill has a lot to do with the shape of the heart at the top - so I can't help but think it was an accident as the bottom end is shaped by boundary stone walls, so combined with the gully its shape is just how it turned out as it matured?

[Mark Bolam]

Oh I wish you'd never posted this cos in a few years a huge penis of Pine trees will emerge in Kent!

 

About 3 miles from Mark Bolam's house.

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Hahahaha!

Some lads I know did a few cocks in daff bulbs on an embankment during community service!

 

 

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