Trees - Our Botanicultural Heritage

[Kveldssanger]

Indeed! And there is no greater act of kidness than planting a tree in whose shade you will never be able to sit (I cannot remember where I read that from). It is the generations following who will benefit from the tree.

 

Those lime tree paintings on the previous page are great, as well. That man was drawn to that tree for one reason or another - do you know why? In a field of trees, I wonder why that one was selected.

[David Humphries]

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Those lime tree paintings on the previous page are great, as well. That man was drawn to that tree for one reason or another - do you know why? In a field of trees, I wonder why that one was selected.

 

he lives literally 2 minutes away from them and I guess that out of the 590 trees in the park he happens likes the seasonal changes of that specific group.

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Hah! fair shout.

[sean]

A view of Kenwood by George Robertson

 

A now shot perhaps?

 

Currently reading a really interesting chapter about Hampstead Heath in Simon Schama's 'Landscape and Memory'. Great book with some great tree/ woodland history:thumbup:

[David Humphries]

A view of Kenwood by George Robertson

 

A now shot perhaps?

 

Currently reading a really interesting chapter about Hampstead Heath in Simon Schama's 'Landscape and Memory'. Great book with some great tree/ woodland history:thumbup:

 

 

Kenwood's still a great site to visit with fantastic trees, but it's changed a bit since then. It's a lot more formal now.

 

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[Kveldssanger]

I confess I like the older look!

[David Humphries]

At first glance this rather unassuming ash in a central London park, looks to be nothing special to write home about, other than being completely riddled with Perenniporia fraxinea

 

 

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[David Humphries]

At first glance this rather unassuming ash in a central London park, looks to be nothing special to write home about, other than being completely riddled with Perenniporia fraxinea

 

 

On closer inspection it reveals itself in a whole different light

 

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Known as the Thomas Hardy Ash and voted as one of London's greatest trees.

 

Before Hardy went on to become a great poet and novelist, he was training to become an architect and was charged with overseeing the exhumation of the body's in the grave yard, for the expansion of the St Pancras Rail line.

 

The head stones were placed together where they are now, and the tree grew up on top of them.

 

 

A tree with an interesting story.

 

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Edited April 21, 2016 by David Humphries

[Mark Bolam]

Fell.

Replant.

[Kveldssanger]

Guy the entire thing.