Trees from here and there
We do a lot of walking in woodland on our travels. Trees always offer some amazing shapes and forms, whether in natural or unnatural growth, or in decay. Below is a selection of photographs from some of our travels.
Southern beech
May 2019Cluny House
Stout trunk of nothofagus antarctica with green burrs at Cluny House woodland garden in Perthshire.
Giant redwood
May 2019Cluny House
Sequoia giganteum at Cluny House woodland gardens in Perthshire.
Giant redwood
May 2019Cluny House
It is difficult to fit a tree as large as this sequoia giganteum in a photo, hence this upward view.
The Fortingall Yew
2019Fortingall, Perthshire
Reputedly 3000 - 9000 years old, at one point in time with a girth of 52 feet, though now much reduced. In the churchyard at Fortingall, Perthshire.
Western Hemlock
2019Cragside
Tsuga heterophylla towers over other trees in the gardens at Cragside House, Northumberland.
The Birnam Oak
October 2008Birnam
Birnam wood features in Shakespeare's Scottish play: "Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him"
Cedar of Lebanon
2017Laugharne
Cedrus libani, growing at Laugharne Castle in Camarthenshire, Wales, on the estuary of the River Taf.
The Fortingall Yew
2019Fortingall, Perthshire
Reputedly 3000 - 9000 years old, at one point in time with a girth of 52 feet, though now much reduced. In the churchyard at Fortingall, Perthshire.
Birch grove
October 2006Glendalough
A spread of thin birch in the grounds of Glendalough monastery, County Wicklow
Laburnum
2008Brinkburn Priory
A laburnum in full bloom at Brinkburn Priory in Northumberland.
The Birnam oak
October 2008Birnam
Birnam wood features in Shakespeare's Scottish play: "Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him".
Crack willow
April 2021York
Salix fragilis Yorkshire County champion for girth, at 780 cm. Common name crack willow, due to its tendency to split open, often with a loud cracking noise. Recent severe pollarding attention due to safety concerns.