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TheWorld of Ancient Trees Part 1 and Part 2
Brian Muelaner
National Trust
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Part 1 and
Part 2 are lovely videos
produced by the National Trust and featuring Brian Muelaner their
ancient tree specialist. Well worth a watch.
Comment by Veteran Tree Group Australia:
Very well made short videos that manage to convey both the intriguing
science underlying relationships between trees and other organisms as
well as the passion these sentinals provoke in many of us.
This video was made possible by a
generous donation from Cadbury. It's thought we care for more ancient
trees than any other individual owner. A large proportion of the
woodlands we manage are ancient sites. Some are likely to have links
right back to the wildwood that colonised the UK following the retreat
of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago. Find out more about the work
we do to protect these ancient species by watching our short video |
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Series of Posters on Pollards in the Lake District
ByPeter Quelch
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The National Trust foresters and farm
tenants carry out a
continuing programme of pollard maintenance, to help preserve the old
pollards, which if they are not re-cut
periodically will eventually grow tall and become unstable, typically
blowing apart in gales. If re-cut every few decades they seem to last
for ever!
Pollards are preserved partly for cultural
landscape reasons, and partly for biodiversity benefi ts. The old
rot-hollows and other niches on these veteran trees provides nesting
holes for birds and bats, bark surfaces for lichens and mosses, in fact
a whole host of opportunities for wild animals, insects and plants.
These three photos show a very large
old ash pollard on an old fi eld boundary behind Stonethwaite School. In
Nov 2007 it was partly re-pollarded by axe in the old way, in view of
the schoolchildren as part of the Bassenthwaite Refl ections programme,
by members of Grampus
Heritage. Then the National Trust forestry staff took over and fi nished
the work with chainsaws in a safe way! It should be well re-grown by
now…
view posters pdf (2178.40KB)l |
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The Planting of the Trees
Alan Sorrell |
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Julia Sorrell, who already has a
Galley Page on our website, has written an article for the Woodland
Trust and sent us the lovely featured painting by her father Alan
Sorrell.
Read more and
see more of Julia pictures
www.alansorrell.ukartists.com
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The Reliable and Tidy Hoverfly Looking for a Place to Live |
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This animated
film highlights the importance of an ancient tree to invertebrates,
mammals, birds and fungi. Created by Jorge Martin for the Ancient Tree
Hunt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTBvQVHT4w
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Watch our films about looking after these impressive trees
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It is thought
that the National Trust cares for more ancient trees than any other
individual owner.
A bold claim, but managing such historically important trees as Newton’s
apple which triggered the great scientist to create his laws on gravity,
the Tolpuddle Martyr’s tree under which the first trade union was formed
or the original Irish yew that has produced every other Irish yew in the
world, you can start to see why we feel we can make this claim.
The World of Ancient Trees -
Part One
Part Two
(videos) |
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Gez Willard
Rays Wood Staffordshire |
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Gez Willard has sent us in these lovely
photos of Rays Wood Staffordshire.
More photos by
Gez |
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Craig Dunsford
Planting native oaks in Ashton Court Estate, Bristol |
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Craig Dunsford has been voluntarily
planting native oaks in Ashton Court Estate, Bristol for around the last
ten years.
Find out more...
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Embalmed Western Red Cedar tree
Portland Oregon |
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Michael Oxman from Seattle has sent us this
photo of an embalmed Western Red Cedar tree bolted to a downtown
highrise building in Portland, Oregon.
More
information
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King John's Palace - the Cottage |
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Article written by John Crampton for
England's Standard magazine (the Journal for the Royal Society of St
George) about a Grade II Listed property in Colnbrook, Berkshire.
The article includes some details on Richard Cox who invented and
planted the Cox's Pippin apple - 6/7 trees still remain in a small
orchard here.
Read the
full article pdf (1229KB)
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A full size willow woven sculpture of an
ancient oak tree
created by the Artist Beryl Smith from Llanidloes, taken at the Royal
Welsh Show.More from the Royal Welsh Show |
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Ancient trees
Poem by Arthur Bennett |
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The Founders' Oak
Poem by Arthur Bennett |
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Taken from a
Poem
'Winter Trees' by Sylvia Plath
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Poem by Rilke
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The Oak Tree
Poem by Valerie Harvey
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Rusland Beeches
By Marianne Birkby - Wildlife and Environment Artist
View more photos
and paintings by Marriane |
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'Eating our ancients' – Shotover Wildlife
Group lead the way with 150 year old crab apple jelly made from the
fruits of one of their ancient crab apples at Shotover Country Park near
Oxford. The Group recently held an ‘Eat a Tree’ event – a guided tasty
morsels walk with nibbles and drink from the trees on site along the way.
For the recipe and for other edibility ideas contact
ivan@shotover-wildlife.fsnet.co.uk
Why not try
Acorn
Bread pdf (22KB) news |
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The
Ancient Marton Oak...
a great survivor.
By Austin Farrell
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'The Tree of Life' (Disney)
The Tree of Life is a massive fourteen story (145 ft.) tall artificial tree
that has been the icon of Disney's Animal Kingdom since it opened on April
22, 1998. Engineered from a refitted Oil platform, it is located in the
centre of the park. On the exterior of it are carved images of three hundred
twenty-five animals. Inside the Tree of Life is It's Tough to be a Bug!, a
3-D film hosted by Flik, from A Bug's Life. |
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The Ancient Yews of Northern
England
Paul Greenwood (A founder member of the Ancient Yew Group) can be
contacted at yewtrees@btopenworld.com
more photos
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Images and stories about Yews from Andy
McGeeney
The meaning of Yew
Borrowdale Cumbria
Pennant Melangell, Powysn
Crowhurst, Surrey
Ninfield, Sussex
Visit Andy's website at
www.andymcgeeney.com |
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'Big Belly' - Forestry experts
hope a giant brace will stop a 1,000-year-old oak tree splitting in half
Legend tells how the devil can be summoned by anyone dancing naked round the
Big Belly Oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire -
read more about this
fascinating tree |
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If you have any works
of writing or poetry (or anything else 'cultural' relating to ancient trees)
please send them in - details here |
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| Johnny Ray Ryder Jr |
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The Oak Tree
A mighty wind blew night and day
It stole the oak tree's leaves away
Then snapped its boughs and pulled its bark
Until the oak was tired and stark
But still the oak tree held its ground
While other trees fell all around
The weary wind gave up and spoke.
How can you still be standing Oak?
The oak tree said, I know that you
Can break each branch of mine in two
Carry every leaf away
Shake my limbs, and make me sway
But I have roots stretched in the earth
Growing stronger since my birth
You'll never touch them, for you see
They are the deepest part of me
Until today, I wasn't sure
Of just how much I could endure
But now I've found, with thanks to you
I'm stronger than I ever knew |
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Tom Splitt |
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The Tree
The calm quiet strength of a tree
Anchored deep in the earth
Reaching high in the sky
The calm quiet strength of a tree
Poem and Song
by Tom Splitt |
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| Michael Rew |
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Where shall we love? beneath the ancient tree
which spreads its leaves across its lengthy limbs
which shade each spring our momentary whims
as it has shaded for a century
or more before I fell in love with thee
the whispered words of love, the minstrels' hymns,
the flowers strewn across the flowing hems
of women cast in ancient poetry.
But now I hold the flowers in my hands
and weave my words of love into a vow
I vow beneath the ancient tree which stands
as long as God and all mankind allow
its age to tower over all the lands
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P William Cowper
(1731-1800).
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The Poplar Field
The poem is a favourite of Sheila Johnson - thanks to her for sending it in. |
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Peter Collinson
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In 1776 Peter Collinson, then Britain's leading
dendrologist, described the Tortworth chestnut as "the largest tree in
England, being 52 feet (15.8 metres) around." He went on to say if we pay
"regard to an old tradition of the three periods given to the oak and
chesnut, viz.
Three hundred years growing.
Three hundred years standing.
Three hundred years decaying.
It countenances my conjecture, that this venerable chesnut is not much less
than a thousand years old". |
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| John Clare |
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Passage from the letters of the poet John Clare
concerning his two favourite Elms
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| John Wyatt |
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John Wyatt, 1998, from the book
"Reflections"
on the Lake District |
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| Joyce Rupp |
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The Cosmic Dance
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| Rev Francis
Kilvert |
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The ancient trees in
Moccas Park |
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| Edith Nesbit
(1858 - 1924) |
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A poem called
"Child's song in spring"
by the author of the "Railway Children" |
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Humphry Repton |
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"Observations on the Theory and Practice of
Landscape Gardening" 1803 |
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Tree spirits |
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Poem by L. Perfect,
Kent |
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Assorted quotes |
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Quotes
on an ancient tree theme |
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