Hello and welcome to my brand new blog which is all about trees. I have loved trees all my life and have created this blog to share what I have learnt about their history, their horticulture and the folklore that surrounds trees.
The inspiration behind the new blog came primarily from moving house earlier this year. Our new home is bordered by a narrow strip of native woodland.The houses were built on the site of a former Pleasure Grounds and a brief 5 minute stroll leads you out of the village into open countryside.
I found myself literally surrounded by native and more exotic trees.
Trees are not only the lungs of the planet but also provide a connection with both the past and the future. Planting a tree is the best legacy you could leave for future generations.
I am going to end my introductory post with an excerpt from 'The True' by Amanda Marks.
'We are woodland and we are never silent.Never.Do you hear our voice? Wind often makes our trees dance and shake to the rhythm of the day, be ita gentle, leaf ruffling breeze or an all-out branch-cracking gale. Rain falls demurely onto our blankets of welcoming greenery, with a hushed sigh, or spitefully stabs anything in it's path in a desire to be heard.
Birds sing sweet songs from our boughs and branches, squirrels scritchety-scratch up our trunks of wrinkly bark, and throngs of insects hum incessantly around us. But these sounds are not our voice.
Only a few remaining wise hearts hear our voice-the ancient word of the forest-and understand the true connection.
Listen. We are a living, breathing, connected community. We are alive.We are life.'
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