‘It is old, but the trees are young …’ #plants

Posted by on Oct 1, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, General, Rides, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

General, East Ride, September 2015

 

From ‘The Green Roads’ by Edward Thomas. (more…)

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The tree of fire #plants

Posted by on Sep 30, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Elder, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Elder, September 2015

 

The name ‘Elder’ may come from the Anglo-Saxon ‘aeld’, meaning fire, because the hollow stems were used as bellows to blow air into the centre of a fire, says the Woodland Trust. (more…)

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Yggdrasil and blue #plants

Posted by on Sep 28, 2015 in 2015, Ash, Autumn, September, Trees | 0 comments

  Trees, Ash, September 2015

 

Ash, Fraxinus excelsior, the tree of life in Norse mytholody. (more…)

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Autumn foreshadowed #plants

Posted by on Sep 27, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Birch, Oak, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Oak, Birch, September 2015

 

The leaves of an Oak, Quercus robur, lay on logs of Silver Birch, Betula pendula. (more…)

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Fruit of the Spindle tree #plants

Posted by on Sep 25, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, September, Spindle, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Spindle, September 2015

 

Euonymus europaea. (more…)

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From ‘scrobb’ to ‘crab’ #plants

Posted by on Sep 23, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Crab Apple, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Tree, Crab Apple, September 2015

 

The ‘crab’ in Crab Apple derives from ‘scrobb’, the Anglo-Saxon for shrub, suggests Stevens. (more…)

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‘So red, that all the blood of men …

Posted by on Sep 21, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Hawthorn, September | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Hawthorn, September 2015

 

Could never paint it so again.’ (more…)

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On a 300 year journey #trees

Posted by on Sep 18, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Hornbeam, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Hornbeam, September 2015

 

Hopefully this young Hornbeam, Carpinus betulus, planted in March 2014, will live a full life span. (more…)

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Blue among the grey #nature

Posted by on Sep 16, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, General, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, general, September 2015

 

And summer slips away … (more…)

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Wild Cherry #plants

Posted by on Sep 13, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, September, Trees, Wild Cherry | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, WIld Cherry, September 2015

 

One of the Prunus avium planted in Spring, 2014. (more…)

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Time to go sloe with a gin #plants

Posted by on Sep 10, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Blackthorn, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Blackthorn, September 2015

 

Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa. (more…)

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‘O silver one, O silver one’ #plants

Posted by on Sep 1, 2015 in 2015, August, Birch, Summer, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Silver Birch, August, 2015

 

From The Silver Birch by Herbert Asquith. (more…)

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