Be kind....

[scats]

This is the view from my kitchen I chose this because I planted each one of those trees, and I hope one day to be able to do it again.

Remember. Be kind to The Earth

Be kind to each other

Be kind to yourself

[Rimmy]

Utterly beautiful - and well done - from one tree planter to another !!

[Blearyeyed]

Lovely words and pictures xxx

[Rache]

Beautiful

[Rugger]

Fabulous!

Season's greeting to you and yours.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

I had a tree planted for me by a lupus friend's husband as part of his wood. I love trees - breaks my heart when some are cut down without good reason.

[scats in reply to PMRpro]

I always dreamed of living in a wood and this is as close as I'm going to get.

[SnazzyD]

😮😀

[scats]

The yellow leaves are mainly from silver birch, but there also, bird cherry, rowan, maple, mainly british natives. There are fruit trees just outside the pic apple, quince, medler and hazel. That's just the front garden, there's more at the back!

Mother nature rakes the leaves!

[scats]

We just have too much to rake. If it's dry enough we might break them up with the lawn mower otherwise they usually blow into a pile in one corner.

Our house was built in the corner of a field 60 years ago and most of the "lawn" is still much as it was then, rough meadow!

[Jackoh]

Wow what a wonderful view!! And amazing that you planted them all. Nature at its finest ! 🌲🌲xx

[Joaclp]

Beautiful trees, lovely thoughts.

[Highlandtiger]

I love silver birches. I was listening to Gardeners' Question Time on Radio 4 earlier today. There was a bit about buying trees as presents. One of the panel went off on a lengthy rant about 'old people' saying that they didn’t want to plant trees as they wouldn’t get the benefit from them, saying, quite rightly, that they were missing the point and that you were planting for future generations and if previous generations hadn’t done that we wouldn’t have the trees we have now. I have an ancient plum tree and an ancient apple tree in my garden which I love both for the fruit I get every year but also for their gnarled shapes.

[scats in reply to Highlandtiger]

We moved here 15 years ago, to look after my parents, it was their home, I felt it was rather open at the front so I ordered some trees, well more like twigs actually, and planted them. They were .99p each! 15 years later I have this

There are larger more established trees around the edge, chestnut, alder oak and ash but this is my little wood and it's beautiful all year round.

I don't think I will ever have enough trees and in years to come my little oak tree will become old and gnarled for someone else to admire.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Highlandtiger]

In her 70s my mother loved to get a new tree for her small garden - and when she moved down the road she still got to see the tree we had bought her for Mother's Day one year as it matured to a much taller version you could see from the road.

[Highlandtiger in reply to PMRpro]

My folks planted a silver birch in the garden for their Silver Wedding. It became a splendid tree which they both loved. It turned out to be specially good as despite being registered blind and having no close vision at all Mum could just about make out the bright silver trunk and could see/hear the rustle of the leaves. They managed to get about 40 years of enjoyment from it and it is still there for the new owners to enjoy.

They also had an apple tree which was already in the garden when they moved there in the early 60s. It was a prolific fruiter. My Dad died first and a few weeks after he died I went to see Mum only to find that one half of the tree had died and fallen down. I assume it had been a graft on the main trunk when it was first grown but it was really strange as the other half was as strong as anything. We had the dead part removed and the remaining bit kept fruiting. Mum died 3 years later and a few weeks after she died I went round to check the house only to find that it had suddenly died too and had been blown over. It had been fruiting just a few months earlier but was now completely dead. It was very spooky but just seemed right the way it happened. I’m sure there is a sensible explanation and the timing was just coincidental but it didn’t feel like that at the time.

[scats in reply to Highlandtiger]

Silver birch are really good value. I certain light the trunks glow silver and at sunset they turn pink. That apple tree is something else, what an amazing story.

[Steady1904]

Lovely view 😊

[SheffieldJane]

Oh you lucky girl! I would happily do your dishes. Happy Christmas and may 2020 be everything you wish for!

[scats in reply to SheffieldJane]

Thanks Jane and the same to you.

I'm sure , OH would be glad to give up washing up duty for you, I cook, he washes, fair shares, at least that's what I tell him. I do know how lucky we are here, it's quite a responsibility to keep it this way.

[Slowdown]

What a beautiful sight, and beautiful words. I bought some bareroot hazel and rowan this year, and spent the next 3 weeks deciding where to put them so they wouldn't spoil the view - I have plans to live to a very ripe old age, obviously.

[scats in reply to Slowdown]

Good for you. When you plant them as twigs they establish quite quickly, then you'll have your own mini wood too.

[Botcher]

Your Silver Birches are lovely. I have planted trees too but not a grove. My birches are very tall and slender, competing for light with old oaks. We all do our best for the planet and climate change, I am planting two more trees tomorrow, exciting.