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Klenchblaize
13-09-2006, 11:39
Thought it would be rather nice (and hopefully non uncontroversial) to find out what tree is “hot” for you? You don’t have to give any particular reason just name it.
Here’s mine:
FALSE ACACIA Robina pseudoacacia
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Montivagus
13-09-2006, 11:48
I like Cedars.
I think VanGogh liked painting them because they look painted by VanGoch if you see what I mean, which is why I like them!?? :confused: :)
jdlenton
13-09-2006, 13:51
I'm a cedar man too but cedar of lebanon i love the way the limbs sprawl
ilovemybed
13-09-2006, 14:00
I'm a cedar man too but cedar of lebanon i love the way the limbs sprawl
Don't like them because I had to park my car under one for 6 months... Covered in Pigeon poo and the big cones actually left a couple of dings when they dropped!
My favourite has to be the good old oak. Solid, dependable, good for burning, good for construction, good for climbing. If only it had Toblerone as fruit instead of acorns...
Blimey...picking a favourite tree is what id imagine answering the question "pick your favourite child" feels like. So many trees, all with amazing features and characteristics special in their own right.
Although if Oaks had toberlones instead of acorns then I'd have to agree with Ilovemybed. :D
jdlenton
13-09-2006, 14:20
If only it had Toblerone as fruit instead of acorns...
now there would be a thing :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
The humble birch.
Beautiful with and without leaves and useful to.
Having said that I have a stand of white popular at the bottom of my garden and I love the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves and way the leaves change from green to silver as the wind catches them
david
Klenchblaize
13-09-2006, 14:34
Blimey...picking a favourite tree is what id imagine answering the question "pick your favourite child" feels like. So many trees, all with amazing features and characteristics special in their own right.
Although if Oaks had toberlones instead of acorns then I'd have to agree with Ilovemybed. :D
Quite right. I’m basing my choice simply on what I perceive as the one with the most pleasing shape/countenance.
Klenchblaize
13-09-2006, 14:35
Although if Oaks had toberlones instead of acorns then I'd have to agree with Ilovemybed. :D
Sure brings a new meaning to the phrase “eye candy”!
White Elf
13-09-2006, 19:41
I think my favourite is Hawthorn.
Tasty leaves and flowers in spring, not to mention the fantastic smell, and lovely berries in Autumn. Just about to make my first attempt at a haw & crab apple chutney, supposed to taste great with cheese :D
It used to be said that the blossoming of the may tree announced the true arrival of spring. :)
I like oaks too :)
Fraxinus excelsior (Ash) - Just brings back thoughts places, plus many other reason, just cool tree to me. Love looking through the canopy of a mature ash the sky and light just makes me smile.
One of my favourites, is English Elm, alas so very rare these days.
Ceeg
Floyd Soul
13-09-2006, 21:05
One can't go wrong with the oak me thinks. It's just the king of our native trees! Closely seconded by the ash and scots pine. I dont think I could ever truly pick a favourite though which is why I grow them all!
Other than that, for pure beauty I'd go for eucalyptus. When they're mature theyre beautiful!
mine would be beech i worked on an estate that had a vista of gold standard beech trees they were massive.
janiepopps
13-09-2006, 21:52
Acer / Japenese Maple. Just beautiful.
j
Douglas Fir. My reason (s) Grows quite quick so can be used in my lifetime, lasts outside quite well without treatment ,is classed as a structural timber and finally ...Looks good too.
Swyn.
PS Lets you know if your tools are blunt or are working it badly!
bambodoggy
14-09-2006, 19:35
Birch.....silver or downy :D
Fraxinus excelsior (Ash) - Just brings back thoughts places, plus many other reason, just cool tree to me. Love looking through the canopy of a mature ash the sky and light just makes me smile.
I'd have to agree with that. To me ash trees look like they've escaped from an impressionist painting. I'm never quite sure which type of Ash is my favourite (possibly angustifolia?) but they're all very lovely, particularly the ones near the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (OK and all the other ones too).
There's also a fantastic Indian bean tree in Lewisham.
Jo
Hazel every time, not only for the look of it, but for the protecting it gives, the hedges it makes, the timber for building and making barrels, the fine branches make fishing baskets and creels, hampers, barrel hoops, walking sticks, fishing rods, whip-handles. The nuts have a dozens of uses; they are the food for many wild animals like squirrels, dormice, and some birds like the nut-hatchers. I (we) like to eat the nuts, either raw or pressing them for oil, and of course adding them to chocolate. To go with your relaxing chocolate, what about some music, of course played on hazel whistle or a tune played on a fiddle with a hazel bow.
Documentary
The Trees That Made Britain
7:30pm - 8:00pm
BBC2
VIDEO Plus+: 115
Subtitles, widescreen
"No matter how highly you rate trees, it's unlikely you've ever referred to them as "silent watchers of the turning year". Yet that's just how this cosy new series tags the barkbased things, approaching big trees, little trees and rotting trees that look like they've been attacked by wild boars with the same arboreal zeal. Tonight's featured "silent watcher" is the yew, a knotty evergreen that sees Kew Gardens' Tony Kirkham (northern, bearded, garrulous) and Jon Hammerton (Londoner, balding, seems a bit shy) travelling across Britain in search of its most impressive and elderly models. The duo's earthiness may jar with the frequently purple-hued narration, but their discoveries - including the reason why yews grow in so many churchyards - are just dandy."
RT reviewer: Sarah Dempster
malcolmc
16-09-2006, 23:05
My favourite is the Brewer’s Weeping Spruce for its sheer beauty; the needles are slightly lighter on one side and, with its weeping habit, shimmers with a silvery appearance - like bright falling water - in the wind. It merits more frequent planting. It is relatively expensive and very slow growing.
Of the trees native to the UK I would say weeping silver birch would be a favourite, again for its beauty, but only just ahead of ash, which is a very useful wood and definitely hot! :)
falling rain
17-09-2006, 11:48
Scots pine for me. Beautiful shapes, tall and majestic the most widely distributed conifer in the world, Slow to decay, pine needle tea, sap for glueing things, good for feather sticks, burns brightly on cold winters nights, and probably mainly why I like it is because it dosn't abandon you in the winter and is a friend all year round being an evergreen. :D
Big John
21-09-2006, 12:52
Hazel, for all the reasons Tadpole gave, followed by Silver Birch - the firelighters friend!
Tribaljamin
21-09-2006, 22:25
apple trees. :)
Hear hear! - Wassail anyone?