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By (user no longer on site) 31 weeks ago
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I have two.
Silk-cotton tree and thespesia grandiflora. I don’t know what the latter is called in common English. It’s not a hibiscus but very close to it.
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Beech trees, always. Both in Spring with the fresh, new, almost lime green foliage and a carpet of bluebells beneath, and in autumn with the dazzling multicolour canopy. They're just a bit special  |
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By *HUSH-Man 31 weeks ago
London |
Ginkgo Biloba is probably my favourite. The leaves are full of anti oxidants and go nicely on a salad. Incredible colour in the autumn too.
I also love Sequoias (Redwood) Planting just one of them can offset a person’s lifetime carbon footprint.
Sweet gums (Acer) have amazing foliage in the autumn and I also love the perfect blossom of a cherry tree.
Some great picks in here. |
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For me it would be a fukutree in the world of bonsai. It flowers beautiful white flowers every year and smells similar to peaches when it does this.
Acer trees in general for ascetic purposes and the humble pine tree for smell. You can pickle and infuse soy with baby pine cones. They taste similar to lemongrass if you catch them in the right moment. |
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By (user no longer on site) 31 weeks ago
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Weeping willow due to the way it moves in the wind, feels like its the go to tree for fairy tales and novels.
Oak for age and old school ship building, and size. |
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I love trees. I like cedars because they smell so good. The bark is so tactile and interesting. The tibetan cherry (prunus serrula) had gorgeous shiny red bark, like red paper wrapping the trunk. Abd the paper bark maple is white bark on the outside but orange underneath. So cool! Horse chestnuts are so much fun because the flowers make the tree look like it's festooned with candles.
But my favourite tree is yew. It's poisonous but very hardy and quite other worldly. And the foliage just lovely to run your hands through.
So yeah. I like trees. |
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By (user no longer on site) 31 weeks ago
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So many have their plus points bark on a silver birch elegant oaks and sweeping pines blossom on a cherry soft needles on a larch could go on forever but a good bonsai has to take top spot either a black pine or maple takes top spot for me or maybe a azalea in bloom |
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I like a big established willow tree, it's like hiding inside a waterfall. I also like chestnut trees, for the canopies, blossoms, leaves in autumn and the chestnuts of course. And then there's beech trees...always loved collecting beech nuts and eating them, then doing crafty things with the pods |
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By (user no longer on site) 31 weeks ago
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I have a silver birch in my garden. It wasn't even the height of the fence when I moved in ten years ago. Now it's three times the size and looks stunning.
I also have a 5ft cherry blossom tree in my lounge ... the plug in kind with LED lights  Saves having to get a xmas tree out every year. I just hang the decs on it and voila  |
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Ficus Retusa Microcarpa.. it’s a bonsai species which I’m shamelessly obsessed with! I have 4 dotted across windowsills in my house
Regular trees my favourite is a weeping cherry blossom.. they just look stunning when in bloom and fully grown at 7ish foot high |
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By *assy69Man 31 weeks ago
West Sussex and Wales |
"What's your favourite tree? Mine's probably Cherry Blossom, or a good old Oak tree. "
Went back to the old country last weekend, there used to be a tree there that I’d sit in as a young whippersnapper, it always calmed me to be up in the branch’s, immersing myself in the sounds of the breeze ………. Alas, it has been removed and there is now a gas pipe running through the field …….. was a lovely oak tree |
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There's a green one by the river, sometimes the leaves change colour and sometimes there's no leaves at all, it's a magic tree I'm telling you as the leaves reappear and it's been happening for many years. |
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Well holy fuck, a tree thread is making me horny 
Or the sexy people who love trees!
My two favourite trees are the beautiful exuberant cherry - Queen of the Spring, and the Scots Pine which is the complete opposite being tall, sparse and evergreen. But there's a solid, strong dignity to it that is admirable and eyecatching. |
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By *arcusz OP Man 31 weeks ago
Billingshurst |
"I’m growing an oak from an acorn , it’s 3years now and it’s around 14 inches tall. "
Oh cool. I've had a few rogue acorns fall from one of the big oaks near me into plant pots. Just going to let them grow, then maybe plant them. |
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By (user no longer on site) 31 weeks ago
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Well, my heart knows me better than I know myself
So I'm gonna let it do all the talking
(Woohoo, woohoo)
I came across a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree
(Woohoo, woohoo)
(*also knonw as the woohoo song by KT Tunstall!) |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 31 weeks ago
Transsexual Transylvania |
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
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A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
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A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
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A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
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Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
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Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
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by
Joyce Kilmer
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By *ripfillMan 31 weeks ago
Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Havant |
"Palm"
Palm … Monocotyledon v’s Dicotyledon. !!
I love apples trees - Kingston black
Which is the base cider apple tree for my cider.
It’s just so giving
Love trees OP the sawdust is in my veins |
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"The magic faraway tree"
Gosh! There's a blast! When I was little, every time I had to wish for something, I wished so hard the far away tree would grow in my garden. I used to lie in bed at night pleading with god to make it happen!
I'm off to try and buy the books and relive that childhood innocence! Thanks for the reminder! |
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"The magic faraway tree
Gosh! There's a blast! When I was little, every time I had to wish for something, I wished so hard the far away tree would grow in my garden. I used to lie in bed at night pleading with god to make it happen!
I'm off to try and buy the books and relive that childhood innocence! Thanks for the
reminder! "
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By *arcusz OP Man 31 weeks ago
Billingshurst |
"I’ve never had a favourite tree but this thread made me go out and do some research. I’m going for the European Beech, apparently we have the tallest in England near to where I live."
Oh thanks, I'm glad. I never get bored looking at trees. |
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I remember reading about two birch trees, one in Durham, one Northumberland survivors from the ice-age, both at hidden locations (sites of special scientific interest), both about a meter wide but only a couple of inches tall...obviously adapted to cold, strong winds. |
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My neighbours have an established cherry blossom in their garden
The wife of the couple wanted to chop it down because she thought neighbours would view it as a nuisance when it sheds
I don't care
It's worth all the fallen blossom just to see it in all its glory for those snatched few weeks each year |
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