Spring Photo Comp 2009

[David Humphries]

one more of Sakura

 

What an amazing Tree.

 

What's the story behind the reduction work?

 

 

 

 

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[janey]

one more of Sakura

 

Quick question: Sakura - is that the name of the tree, or the generic term for all cherry blossom?

[David Humphries]

Quick question: Sakura - is that the name of the tree, or the generic term for all cherry blossom?

 

The latter

 

 

 

Cherry blossom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 

 

 

 

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[LSD]

What an amazing Tree.

 

What's the story behind the reduction work?

 

 

 

 

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Not sure about reduction .

my guess is that the branch got damaged sometime over the winter, probably from heavy snow (gets pretty bad in Kyoto) they pruned it back so it looks better for Sakura , but leavening a stump so that disease didn’t get in to the branch below, they’ll probably prune it back further at a better time of year, but that’s only a guess, what u think?

 

Like what you did with the oak on the other thread, very Zen, the Japanese would have done exactly the same thing IMO, anything old over there is pretty much considered a god..

[tractor dave]

Well here are my entries!

[Mac McLennan]

Not great quality as it was taken on my phone camera.

 

 

But pretty cool.

[Mac McLennan]

..............and I'm pretty pleased with this photo as I couldn't actually see the Robin when I took it. I just saw it fly in so held my phone out at full stretch incase I spooked her.

 

She is now sitting with five chicks. I shall try and get another photo.

[David oakman]

My last picture. hard choice but as it is spring my early purple orchids with a nice bit of ash coppice.

[John Hancock]

Sod it, one more from this morning...

[Mac McLennan]

.....and here's the chicks