Inspired by the Loose and Leafy Lady, www.looseandleafy.blogspot.com, I have decided to join the Tree Watching Club . The idea is to pick a tree and watch it, take photos and report back. We have quite a few mature trees in the garden and to be honest I don’t watch them enough. Every year they do their thing, the deciduous lose their leaves, I rake them up, they sit about for a while. they grow some more and so it continues. The evergreen ones just sit there being green. So this year I decided to pick a tree and study it. This is where my problems began, which tree? I had a short list of two and asked advice from LLL who suggested both. Make it so. The winners of the On the Edge Trees of Year are (drum roll and annoyingly long pause) a Tilia x europaea or Common Lime and a Fagus sylvatica “Atropurpurea” or Copper Beech. Periodically I will “compare and contrast” these wonderful specimen, and hopefully we will all learn what I have been missing. These trees are located on either side of the woodland path and as you can see are stretching out towards each other, tenderly entwining tips of branches. How could they ever be separated. Well we will have to get the tree surgeons back, we don’t want any of this soppy nonsense going on in this garden.
Happy Valentines Day!
Thanks for putting me onto the whole tree-watching thing. You’re right, we don’t give them the attention they deserve.
I’m now wrestling with the which tree to follow dilemma. Doers it have to be big, or is a little sapling OK. In a way a sapling seems to be more in need of support.
That is a very good point, look after the babies and we have have wonderful tree for years to come. Take a look at http://looseandleafy.blogspot.com/ the guardian of the tree watch! Let me know what you decide.
Lots of time spent driving today and thinking about tree-following (rather than milk tanker-following, which I seemed to spend hours doing). Tomorrow I’m going to ‘interview’ candidates for the role of followed tree and will let you know the outcome.
I keep looking at other trees thinking perhaps I should have chosen you lovely oak or elm or pine or …..!