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yea?.....have to try them.......friend of mine made some amazing hawthorn flower wine last year......really cold on a sunny day......boooootiful:001_cool:

Hawthorn co-habiting with an Oak:thumbup1:

As the title suggests this thread is intended to focus on one tree a month. It will hopefully be a celebration of our Native Trees in order to aid us all in learning as much as possible about them. Our experiences working with them, fungal associations, pests and diseases, photographs, myths, legends and their place in the arts and culture. As said before a celebration and learning resource. I thought we could use the Celtic Tree Ogham calendar as a starter whose origins lie with the Celtic tribes who migrated to Britain around 700 – 500bc. Trees were venerated by the ancients for their many gifts which were a mainstay of peoples lifestyles. Everybody was born under a particular tree (the same as our own zodiac sign). Hopefully this thread will work and we can collate all sorts of useful and interesting information about our native trees. I hope there are a few of you who feel the same. This months tree covering the dates 15th May to 9th June is The Hawthorn (Crataegus Monogyna) Please feel free to add to previous Months.....Birch, Ash and Alder and Willow. Would be nice to have a few more contributions this month. Last month a bit slack (me also!!)

Thats stunning mate......beautiful colouration ....:thumbup:

infra red and leaves were best in springtime.......the more chlorophyll the better the results:thumbup1:

10 mins looking out front room window.

theres a few bits and bobs.......found a wheel brace about 20 foot up an oak totall embedded now. Theres a shot of it lurking in the depths of this site on a thread dedicated to all things found in trees.....seek and you may find.

pescky vandal....what did you go and put that up there for Mr Humphries? And now trying to cover your tracks!!!! Just looked at your new site.......congratulations it looks very nice and very interestring........cooooolio.

And why would that be????

Marmite & rasberry jam sarnies siting on those benches for tommorows lunch..........now there's a thought . you're a sick man monkeyD

looks horizontal to me......

really nice photo;'s david......an inspiring place it seems. Where were you?

that looks great....

i love marmite......love the trees......love the photo's:thumbup: love the benches photos!

very nice!!

Hi Ben....its definately worth a wonder......and a wander:biggrin: Here you go. St Ann's Hill

there you go

Oak monolith with sorbus growing from within:thumbup:

and a few more

and the next tree along.

nice beech entwinement.

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went to st anns hill today.....a wooded hill which sits between the m25 and m3 motorways. Althopugh a constant hum emanating from these motorways a special place none the least. The info board gives a tiny bit of info on the hill "St.Ann's Hill takes its name form a chapel built around 1334 dedicated to St.Ann. Its original name was Eldebury (Oldbury) Hill with an old fort, and there are traces of old earthen defences on the top. The most notable resident of the Hill was the radical politician Charles Fox whose house was opposite the present main entrance. The hill was presented to the Local Authority by Baron Camrose of Longcross and opened by the Rt.Hon. Neville Chamberlain MP in June 1928

that is brilliant.........would sit very nicely on 'the beauty of standing deadwood thread'!

nice!!!!