Tag: Trees
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Trees, water, ploughing, recycling, parties and politics
“I have signed up to the Tree Registry (£18 a year), a database of some 80,000 “champion” trees in Britain and Ireland. Individual entries are highly detailed: genus, species, height, diameter and girth, length of extra stems, recorder’s name, grid reference, owner’s name and address and year planted, when known. Sometimes there are photos. The…
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New Scientist and why some trees lose their leaves
Why deciduous trees lose their leaves for winter is one of those questions to which I thought that I would obviously know the answer, but as I sat in the summerhouse this morning, crossword finished, warm and dry in cold, wet and windy weather, watching the last of the leaves falling from the sumac tree…
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Rewild the Church (and I Love Yew)
Yesterday evening I spent an hour and a half attending a webinar hosted by Wild Card, “a grassroots movement challenging Britain’s biggest landowners to rewild their land before it’s too late.” They are in co-operation on this issue with the campaign group 38 Degrees. 50% of our land is owned by less than 1% of…
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How to Read a Tree. Book review
Tristan Gooley’s How to Read a Tree, clues and patterns from roots to leaves, Hodder Press, 2024. I cannot think of another example of my completely changing my mind about a book about a third of the way through, although I am never going to like the cover very much. Dare I say it grew…