Tag: Tree
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Birch…
It’s National Tree Week… According to the UK Tree Council, at least… for some of us every week is tree week. It prompted me today to post onto Mastodon a photograph I took in Sweden several years ago, of a delightful stand of silver birch trees. From there it was a simple journey (in fact…
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Tree’s up
So this year I had to do it all on my own, Charlie being at Manchester until next weekend. Decent tree too, I had to cut fourteen inches off the top to get it in. The ‘fairy’ on the top is traditional, and older than me. The Armagnac is less so, but just as…
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Tree Council Press Release Re-Posted
Press Release SURVIVAL OF THE WETTEST : TREES NEED WATER Tree loss is a problem for all of us; with so many benefits to offer people in a changing climate, it is an irony that those changes may result in increased tree mortality rates. Around five and a half million urban shade trees were killed…
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Fun with Trees
See, you never know how the day is going to go… As Chairman of the Parish Council and local Tree Warden too, when I was faced with a parishioners complaint about a gorgeous but ponderously large Weeping Willow, I sought advice from the county Tree Officer. We met under the fronds of the Willow, which is…
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At last my tree-hugging is official!
So, apparently I still have too much free time because today I became a Tree Warden! South Gloucestershire County Council are aware that there is a ‘need’ for thousands of new homes in the area over the next few years, and are aware that many ‘significant’ trees could be lost as developers bring in the…