Flowers and Blazes
A walk in the woods yesterday revealed some natural and unnatural clues. This primrose, the only one in the area, was unsurprisingly in a south-facing…
Tag: plants
Green Tinged Trees
Picking up on a theme I touched on a few days ago, it is remarkable and delightful how differently we all see the world. Yesterday…
A Tale of Two Tree Stumps
I ran a small private course yesterday and enjoyed a wonderfully ironic moment. It was almost embarrassing. The first half of the day was spent…
The Generous Trees
The more I study natural navigation, the more indebted I feel to trees. There are few environmental conditions that they do not make some effect…
Long-living lichen and other tongue twisters
We all see a lot of lichens, but we pay them little attention. They are not endowed with classical beauty and yet their absence can…
Roll up, Roll up, Get Your Wild Places Here!
A Christmas present that I hesitate to share, or even share the idea of… is ‘Britain and Ireland’s Best Wild Places’ book. It does exactly…
The Lichen Few
A little over a month ago I promised to look at how trees have brown or ‘tanned’ looking lichen on their north side in this…
The Many Faces of Chichester Cross
Chichester Cross is a slightly mysterious stone construction at the heart of my home town. It has been around for five hundred years or more…
Leonardo’s Tree Compass
Leonardo da Vinci is among the great and the good to have noted that tree growth is not symmetrical, it is heavily influenced by the…