Favourite trees

[Buzz]

Dunno about trees but i likes a well manicured bush !!

[Peter]

 

Whats the access like??

 

 

Back off Huckster, I'll have my Iveco parked under it before you've hitched up your trailer!

[tommer9]

Gonna have to go for good old common Ash- Fraxinus Yeah. its a certainly up there for me:thumbup1:

 

I am with you there.....

 

13th century norse legend has it that the earth was born out of a mighty ash that is named Yggdrasil, whose branches reach to the heavens, and whose roots extend to 3 other worlds, Asgard, Jotunheim and Niflheim. It is the tree where the gods held their court, and whose branches spread over the whole universe.

 

It was an olive ash that started me on my sawmilling career, before which i saw everything as firewood:scared1:.

 

It is such a mighty tree, with such strong grain, but which yields beautifully to the splitting maul and provides warmth, yet will give up timber of the utmost beauty- we have a lot of olive ash here in cornwall- which will sustain shock and wear for years and years of service.

 

My favorite though.....still undecided.

[coolie]

Totara Trees for me.I like to see the giants of the local bush still standing.

 

 

 

 

 

[minty]

 

Another favourite tree of mine is the Pohutakawa.They are common in New Zealand but there are not many in my area.I am growing on some speciman trees for planting out.

I like the trees that the birds like,and the Tui,s(see avatar) love these trees.

[atree]

wow nice pohut,would love to work on a big one,i have one in my garden but only a wee one!

[RobArb]

Has anyone forgot or is just ignoring the mighty Sycamore

[Rowden the cowboy]

Its gotta be a toss up between macrocarpa, leylandii or false acacia. Or maybe stone pine?

[Giles Hill]

I think the field maple is greatly under-rated, a mature veteran F Maple can be stunning. I say my favourites include the majesty of Oaks, the beauty of Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the simplicity and dappling of shade from a Silver Birch

 

Must be a Suffolk thing, I love field maple too. Its an understated tree that people don't seem to notice, or they mistake for a small oak.

 

I love the multistem fms growing from great big lapsed-coppice boles that you come across in old hedgerows. Some nice multistem hedgerow ash too.

 

In fact, it's the history side of things that get's me - looking at the tree and thinking of times and society gone by. Big parkland cedars of Lebanon... River valley native black poplars...

 

Saying all that, my guilty pleasure is Variegated tulip trees.