Trees - Our Botanicultural Heritage

[sean]

An Oak tree in the car park of Lords Wood. Beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. This woodland was obviously somewhere special for a guy recently passed away as these notes from his child and nephew/niece testify.

It is connections like this to woodlands that highlight the importance of each and every woodland in the country and emphasises the need to protecT them all. Not a single one can be lost.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Saw this earlier on FB Sean.

 

Good capture of the emotion and interaction people have with trees and woodland.

 

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

North London Oak

 

The last images have been shared before but the first two are earlier shots from before I knew it.

 

Taken circa1900

 

 

Taken circa 1975

 

 

Various taken over the last few years

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

That oak had some awesome Laeti come out on it this year. Great photos! The one in the snow and ice is awesome.

[David Humphries]

About 100 years between these images

 

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[silky fox]

Such an interesting thread David.I use my local Trees as passage of time indicators.To me nothing shows a greater natural impact.As always,great pictures!

[David Humphries]

Same view about 100 or so years apart.

 

interesting to see how the treescape changes over time, not many of the original trees left now.

 

The 'ha ha' which was the boundary between the formal gardens above and the pasture below had a hawthorn hedge and an old oak tree is long gone but just about still visible in the foreground even though it's been filled in for decades.

 

The old building (Golders Hill House) was destroyed in the Second World War by a rogue bomb drop and is now a carpark.

 

 

[Gary Prentice]

19 hours ago, David Humphries said:

 

 

interesting to see how the treescape changes over time,

 

I helped plant a retail park beside the M62 near Leeds in, I guess, the early 90’s. The artificial berm had been compacted to death by 360s and we were planting plugs with heavy pinch bars, thinking nothing would survive. 

 

Drove past the site last year and the park is totally screened by trees - nature’s wonderful.

 

Also feel old, in that I’ve helped to visibly improve the landscape.