despite the wind, despite the challenges … a poem on the thriving of this isolated hawthorn. Read More
despite despite and only
The Colour Yellow
We’re very excited to report that we’re now in the thick of planning for the first colour transformation at the first and most westerly of the seven trees: the Wasdale Oak. We won’t be wrapping the tree. We won’t be painting it. The colour intervention involves the draping of over 100 metres of yellow cloth… Read More
The new Charter for Trees, Woods and People
Did you know that the Anglo Saxons had 471 different words for trees and woods? Or that the 1068 Domesday survey revealed that 15% of England was wooded (today it’s just 14% in the whole of the UK)? These two facts were shared by the Woodland Trust’s Matt Larsen-Daw at the recent Charter Champion day in… Read More
A Woodland of Words
A gathering of poems about trees into a woody anthology – contributions are coming in. Read More
The age of trees
Time is wrapped in moss, bud, lichen.
Gnarled bark holds secrets of years
for a wild tree never tells … Read More
Midwinter walk, with oak and moonlight
We drove in. The lake was grey. The screes grey, the sky grey. Rain. Wind whipping the water into spray. All grey and bracken brown. Read More
THE LONG VIEW 