River Cottage

in the Eden Project

not technically a tree, but......

what a beauty..at Wisley Garden

cliche, but a nice one all the same..

you never know who might live at the bottom of them do you?

this was at the End of the road festival, i nice little work of art in a nice little tree...

Top one some sort of maple, as it came up I thought Norway maple, but as it is planted as an avenue, may be something else.

Second one, clever, but not sure I like it much. Too prickly in all senses of the word.

Third one, I think it is the liquidamber and goes superb colours in the autumn.

The other two, really nice and clever too. Like them.

Nice gallery Weirdy.

thanks alchy...i am a tree hugger at heart i guess...nothing wrong with that i s'pose

Like the tree houses - very nice.

I do like a well-placed liquidambar, you don;t see them being planted much these days though, the seemed very trendy in the 1960s around these parts. I might bung some into the arboretum

do it ozzi

Today's trip to the botanic gardens ...

This is a paperbark - endemic in parts of NSW and rather larger than it grows in its natural environment due to the excellent conditions in the Botanic Gardens:

This is more because it seemed like a naked torso striving for the heavens ...:

Can see why the paperbark was so called. Is it ever used for paper? The other one is a lovely shape too.

Weirdy, we cut trees down and worry about their health, but I can appreciate a lovely tree with the best. You have to have some sort of feeling for trees if you work in the woods, and I like to consider myself a constructive tree hugger; remove the ones that are going to weaken the good ones.

Not really terribly useful as paper - it is fibrous and also absorbent, so ink would soak in, and a knib would tear it I suspect. I suppose you could use pencil, but have never tried - it does not grow around these parts - my childhood tree-based paper was silver birch bark

I saw this tree on a walk last week and had to nip back today with the camera.

Wow Mark, that's beautiful. Anywhere I'd know? The Cavan Burren has lots of moss-covered and lichen-covered trees, but nothing as sinuous and touchable as that...