BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!

Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 05:36 AM

"one of my favourite patches is currently under threat. The developers would love to get in a tame expert to testify that it is valueless - but I've got the data to prove that it isn't - so they've had to call me in as the local 'expert'. This is going to be the most fraught and difficult battle of my life - but I'm going to do my very best to win."

Good luck with your efforts there Shimrod. It would be really interesting if you could keep us updated on events?

Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 05:49 AM

Dear Shimmy,

I'm sitting here writing this to you with a copy of The Wildlife Trust's 'Chris Packham's Back Garden Nature Reserve' on my desk. I bought it when I worked for The National Trust, as it was one of the many books on nature which they sold. It's a brilliant book and one which I'm sure many people have bought.

Chris made Wildlife interesting for the masses, because he made it wild (literally) and whacky, fun and interesting.

I am in no being disparaging about your work here and I applaud you for all the hard and dedicated work you so obviously put in, which I'm sure, in its turn has gone on to help people such as Chris Packham help to not only gain their own picture of what is happening, but paint that picture for others to see.

I am not talking about *you* being disconnected, but millions of others out there. And if you get on board many children, get them planting trees, taking care of that tree, watching it grow because it is their *special* tree, then you begin to raise a whole new generation with a whole new outlook.

This morning I've watched some heartbreaking videos about what is happening around this planet, and I think most of us in here are intelligent enough to realise that something now has to change...and FAST. Indeed, that was the very message put out by Sir David Attenborough himself at the very start of the BBCs Wildlife Appeal the other day, with Chris and Kate on board.   Sir David talked about how the world is now a very different place to when he was young, but it wasn't all doom and gloom, but....we HAD to change, and that change has to happen NOW, not tomorrow, not next week or next year, but today, because, if it doesn't..........................

You and people like you who do such time consuming work are equally as important as the Chris Packham's and Sir David's, because all of you, in your own and different ways, are getting the message out...

So let our children, young people, old people, all plant as many trees as they want, fill them with bird boxes and bird feeders, worship them, love them, talk to them, whatever it takes..but let them get reconnected to the planet again, no matter what...

Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 05:59 AM

On July 8th 1917, Thomas John 'Tom' Thomson (b.1877) drowns in Canoe Lake in his beloved Algonquin Park; a friend and associate of the Group of Seven landscape painters, his death has never been explained.

Two of his best known canvases are 'The West Wind' - described as growing "in the national ethos as our one and only tree in a country of trees" - and 'The Jack Pine' both iconic images of trees

As a tribute to a great artist and for all those who love wild woods

Wildwood

Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 07:44 AM

Oh BOY! My sapling's arrived! It's a baby Copper Beech! Perfick! :0)

I'm going to plant it later on today.   Then, I have to do the same for 10 people that I know..


Signed...
The Happy Tree Bunny :0)

Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 08:20 AM

A Copper Beech (an ornamental cultivar of the European Beech) is especially appreciated in the winter as although it is a deciduous plant it will retain the leaves throughout the winter until the new green leaves appear in the Spring.

As it it can grow to 120ft (36m), it is, unfortunately, too tall for my garden but because it's fast growing (up to 60cm p.a) it is commonly used for formal garden hedging

Not reccommended for -
Heavy or wet soil
Frost pockets
Dense shade or
Coastal areas

Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 04:02 PM

It's a Purple Beech, apparently, got me colours mixed up.. :0)

Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 04:09 PM

The botanic name for the Copper Beech is Fagus sylvatica Purpurea - hence it is also known as the Purple Beech.

Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 04:12 PM

Copper Beech's are glorious, and MASSIVE! Where ya gonna plant it LC?

Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
From: GUEST,Chris Murray
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 06:05 PM

I love copper beeches. We've got one in our garden.

Maybe I'm biased as Beech was my maiden name.