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"Grove" of trees.... How would you qualify a feature as a grove?


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There's the Wiki definition:

 

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Reasonable, at least I thought so.

 

There's the Treeterms definition:

 

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A group of trees, including fruit trees, of pleasant or ornamental character.

 

Not so fulsome I thought....

 

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The word grove always makes me think of  oak or yew trees & druids. 

 

Also thought of a  grove as  an area of single  species trees within a larger mixed woodland.

 

Didn't think it meant nut or fruit trees as that was an orchard but maybe:

 

fruit trees = orchard

 

nuts = a  nut grove. (also nuttery)

 

 

 

I  think of a small  isolated area of trees as a copse.

 

How does a  a copse differ from grove?

 

But then theres also spinney covert  thicket  brake shelter belt etc........

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25 minutes ago, Mr. Ed said:

"Margaret, are you grieving over Golden Grove unleaving . . ."

Well remembered in the context of statues. We don't always need to box instances into categories like a bloody rationalist might i.e. material accounting. Children and oldies see more than those incapable of doing anything other than ranking by species, number or density to calculate their marketable value.

A grove could mark an event. A place to return to; to remember an earlier time. Nowadays we pass them on our way to somewhere else. Little wonder we have time to stop and look.

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On 14/06/2020 at 09:45, Stere said:

How does a  a copse differ from grove?

A copse is a wood that is in a coppice rotation.

 

A spinney is a small group of thorns

 

A carr is a collection of alder

 

A thicket is a young woodland grown close and at pre pole stage

 

Any more?

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The word grove is derived from Anglo Saxon word grāf but no evidence as to what it meant other than it related to woodland however it is thought to be probably a small, defined area of managed woodland, normally surrounded by non-woodland (ref Rackham O 1976 Trees and Woodland In The British Landscape). An area of woodland which will go back to at least medieval times I know called the Grove would fit this description.

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3 hours ago, openspaceman said:

A copse is a wood that is in a coppice rotation.

 

A spinney is a small group of thorns

 

A carr is a collection of alder

 

A thicket is a young woodland grown close and at pre pole stage

 

Any more?

OR:

 

A corpse is often the start of a crime novel,

A spinster resolves the crime by estabishing that the brake circuit was cut in the

Carr.

A thicket is the local policeman

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