FabSwingers.com forum: Favourite Tree

By *arcusz OP Man
12 weeks ago

Billingshurst

What's your favourite tree? Mine's probably Cherry Blossom, or a good old Oak tree.

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By *iz78Woman
12 weeks ago

wirral

Cheery blossom or a Japanese red acer

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
12 weeks ago

Manchester-ish

Maple I think, beautiful in autumn and full of tasty syrup.

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

Oak.

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By *2000ManMan
12 weeks ago

Worthing

I have a Rowan tree in my garden. Developing berries now which the birds love.

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By *rofessor ElementalMan
12 weeks ago

Durham

Monkey Puzzle Tree

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By *obilebottomMan
12 weeks ago

All over

Xmas

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By *ynamicnatureMan
12 weeks ago

Doncaster

Huon pine, it smells amazing,

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By *rsKOTCTWoman
12 weeks ago

Leeds

Oak.

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By *lue RascalMan
12 weeks ago

Cheshire Liverpool Manchester

"Xmas"

Only if it’s a fake one with presents under it

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

Gumtree... can find some good bargains on there.

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

Magic

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By *illy IdolMan
12 weeks ago

Midlands

Strangler fig tree

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
12 weeks ago

Leeds

Acer tegmentosum.

The mr

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By *oyJonMan
12 weeks ago

Gloucester

Hornbeam

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By *irk_Dastardly.Man
12 weeks ago

Salisbury

Fevertree. Preferably with a gin, ice, slice of lime.

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By *agatoXXXMan
12 weeks ago

Mordor

It's not my family tree for sure.

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By *ell GwynnWoman
12 weeks ago

North Yorkshire

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 *inxy777Woman
12 weeks ago

essex

Cherry blossom, oak.

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By *iker JackMan
12 weeks ago

Wolverhampton

The magnolia. But what a mess when it drops its leaves

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By *oadsafun1960Man
12 weeks ago

Somerset & Hertfordshire

Weeping Silver Birch

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By *lowupdollTV/TS
12 weeks ago

Herts

Bonsai. Provides an outlet for my megalomania.

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By *uri00620Woman
12 weeks ago

Croydon

Dragon Blood or Baobab

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By * F 2018Couple
12 weeks ago

shropshire

"What's your favourite tree? Mine's probably Cherry Blossom, or a good old Oak tree. "

The oak tree

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By *ickshawedCouple
12 weeks ago

Wolverhampton

There was a weeping willow on the way to the park when I was a child that I always loved walking under. I love how the branches and leaves flow in the wind

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By *arcusz OP Man
12 weeks ago

Billingshurst

A nice variety of answers. Lots of tree names to Google and have a look at.

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By *HUSH-Man
12 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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By *r.Vice GuyMan
12 weeks ago

bristol/london

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 *midnight-Woman
12 weeks ago

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Silver birch i think, spectacular all year round

Otherwise beech trees

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By *ivemealadybonerWoman
12 weeks ago

somewhere

A dead one lol. I don't know why but I love seeing an old, bare, dead tree x

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By *alcon77Man
12 weeks ago

under the sun & the moon

Treebeard.

- technically an ent.

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By *teve691000Man
12 weeks ago

West Midlands

It’s got to be an Oak. If a tree could tell story’s

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By *ubikslongswordMan
12 weeks ago

East Grinstead

The one I used to climb when I was in my teens

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By *irtydevil666Man
12 weeks ago

bristol

Weeping Willow

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By *lfa RomeoMan
12 weeks ago

southeast , Herts, Beds

Silver birch, cherry tree, and fig tree

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By *akHeartWoodMan
12 weeks ago

Crawley

Love a horn beam. Easy to climb, nice smooth bark. Textured and cuts easily.

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By *akHeartWoodMan
12 weeks ago

Crawley

"It’s got to be an Oak. If a tree could tell story’s "

Just got home after spending two days clearing one that had fallen over a canal.

About 180 years old.

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

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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By *arcusz OP Man
12 weeks ago

Billingshurst

"A dead one lol. I don't know why but I love seeing an old, bare, dead tree x"

There's some beauty in that as well, I hear you.

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By *punk n gushCouple
12 weeks ago

walmer

Giant red wood

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By *r John WickMan
12 weeks ago

The Continental

The Joshua Tree

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By *entBarryUKMan
12 weeks ago

Ashford

The Larch.

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By *edeWoman
12 weeks ago

the abyss

All the trees!! I refuse to pick just one - you can't make

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By *he Silver FuxMan
12 weeks ago

Uttoxeter

I have a beautiful old sessile oak here, complete with a couple of woodpecker nests it’s about 200 years old

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By *r John WickMan
12 weeks ago

The Continental

The one I’m banging a hot bird up against.

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By *rHotNottsMan
12 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Cherry tree

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By *ingerTwistWoman
12 weeks ago

Edinburgh

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 *ealMissShadyWoman
12 weeks ago

St Albans/ Welsh Borders

My son has a Japanese Acer in his garden, it's beautiful

I do enjoy a Monkey Puzzle tree though

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

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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By *dventuresWithEveWoman
12 weeks ago

SW Birmingham outskirts

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 *ighland couple 99Couple
12 weeks ago

Inverness

Apple or conker

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By *rispyDuckMan
12 weeks ago

Chinese Takeaway near you

Love Willow trees & silver berch

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By *odgers and PartingCouple
12 weeks ago

edinburgh

The birch that grows out of an erratic rock at the start of Rannoch Moor in Scotland. K

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By *innie The MinxWoman
12 weeks ago

Under the Duvet

Oak

Or cherry

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By *eliz NelsonMan
12 weeks ago

The Tantric Tea Shop

Just love trees.. was chuffed to get 3 reduced and different acers for £17 a few yrs back, all about 3 foot tall and doing great now...

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By *ElectricityMan
12 weeks ago

Preston

Old oak trees they are ecosystems full of different species of creatures

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By *eliz NelsonMan
12 weeks ago

The Tantric Tea Shop

A local park has a ceanothus allowed to grow into its normal tree format rather than a shrub. looks beautiful especially in flower

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

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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By *eroLondonMan
12 weeks ago

Mayfair

"Fevertree. Preferably with a gin, ice, slice of lime."

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This is immeasurably the best response.

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By *arcusz OP Man
12 weeks ago

Billingshurst

"Just love trees.. was chuffed to get 3 reduced and different acers for £17 a few yrs back, all about 3 foot tall and doing great now..."

Nice

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By *a LunaWoman
12 weeks ago

South

Magnolia

Horse chestnut

Italian Cypress

Olive

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By *layfullsamMan
12 weeks ago

Solihull

One I can climb, should have grown out of it by now but still love it

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By *r.SJMan
12 weeks ago

Wellingborough

Lime but only because it's wood is so easily carveable... beyond that though, the oak for is steadfast strength, age and majesty or the willow fit it's whisping plumage

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By *arcusz OP Man
12 weeks ago

Billingshurst

Having been to southern Europe seeing rows of orange trees, I'd love to have a few myself.

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By *estYorkshireGentMan
12 weeks ago

Leeds

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 *avinaTVTV/TS
12 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

I love willows and beeches.

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

The oak and the ash and the Bonnie ivy tree how I wish once again in the north I could be.

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By *assy69Man
12 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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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
12 weeks ago

Stourbridge

I’m growing an oak from an acorn , it’s 3years now and it’s around 14 inches tall.

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

Acer palmatum 'Osakazuki'

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By *he love catsCouple
12 weeks ago

South Wales

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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By *ubadubdubWoman
12 weeks ago

Hereabouts

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
12 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)
12 weeks ago

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 *eneralKenobiMan
12 weeks ago

North Angus

Groot

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By *ablo minibar123Woman
12 weeks ago

A mug tree

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
12 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

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By *agatoXXXMan
12 weeks ago

Mordor

"I talk to the trees,

That's why they locked me away..."

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By *iddlesticksMan
12 weeks ago

My nan’s spare room.

I’ve got a walnut tree that I’ve grown from a nut, it’s about 4feet tall now and it’s an absolute gorgeous tree.

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By *oubleswing2019Man
12 weeks ago

Colchester

Sakura

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By *rafter69Man
12 weeks ago

upminster

Palm

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By *ripfillMan
12 weeks ago

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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By *arcusz OP Man
12 weeks ago

Billingshurst

"Groot

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By *layfullsamMan
12 weeks ago

Solihull

Tree houses

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By *ittlemissmistressKCouple
12 weeks ago

Southampton

The magic faraway tree

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By *ingerTwistWoman
12 weeks ago

Edinburgh

"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 *oung at heartCouple
12 weeks ago

Birmingham

Silver birch ... poss Ash ... or Rowan ... but quite like an Oak. Oh ... and a Yew. I like trees xx

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By *ild_oatsMan
12 weeks ago

the land of saints & sinners

The Singing Ringing Tree

Or The Magic Money Tree ….that I’ve never been able to find…..

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By *arcusz OP Man
12 weeks ago

Billingshurst

"Tree houses

I never had one...

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By *ansoffateMan
12 weeks ago

Sagittarius A

Yggdrasil

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By *ittlemissmistressKCouple
12 weeks ago

Southampton

"The magic faraway tree

I'm off to try and buy the books and relive that childhood innocence! Thanks for the

reminder!

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By *ubmissiveman2uMan
12 weeks ago

Cheshire

Great redwood trees of Scotland.

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By *hrill CollinsMan
12 weeks ago

The Outer Rim

the singing ringing tree ... for those who remember

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By *wansJack83Man
12 weeks ago

yeovil

"Bonsai. Provides an outlet for my megalomania. "

Another vote for Bonsai’s.

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By *lueeyedchapMan
12 weeks ago

Nottingham

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.

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By *rooperRedMan
12 weeks ago

Littlehampton

No. 1

The Larch

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By *uriouskinksCouple
12 weeks ago

PORTSMOUTH

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By *uriouskinksCouple
12 weeks ago

PORTSMOUTH

Dragon Tree as found in Maderia.

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By *arcusz OP Man
12 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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By *eliz NelsonMan
12 weeks ago

The Tantric Tea Shop

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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By *arcusz OP Man
12 weeks ago

Billingshurst

"Yggdrasil"

That's on a game I play. Definitely going to Google that one.

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By *arcusz OP Man
10 weeks ago

Billingshurst

Bumper cars.

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By *hiteWitchXXXWoman
10 weeks ago

North Wales

Weeping willow, sliver birch and beech trees

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By *ad NannaWoman
10 weeks ago

East London

I do love the flowering cherry outside my house, but I equally love a bright blue ceanothus.

Unfortunately, neither keeps their blossom for long.

Maples are lovely too.

Don't make me choose.

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By *urry BlokeMan
10 weeks ago

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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By *punk n gushCouple
10 weeks ago

walmer

I got wood lol

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By *arcusz OP Man
10 weeks ago

Billingshurst

"I got wood lol

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