The Spindle Tree is popular for its bright pink or purple fruits! It gets its name from a wool spindle (used for spinning wool), where its wood was used for making spindles. It can grow up to 20 feet or 6 meters high and popular in gardens for its attractive autumn colours. Parts of […]
Month: July 2016
Santa Barbara Moreton Bay Fig Tree
Santa Barbara’s Moreton Bay Fig Tree is said to be the largest of its kind in the United States! It was transplanted from its original site on State Street in 1877 by a young girl named Adeline Crabb. The cutting had come from Australia as a gift to Adeline’s friend from a visiting sailor. […]
Quiver Tree Forest
The Quiver Tree Forest in southern Namibia is home to a spectacular collection of some of Earth’s most unusual trees, some of which are three centuries old. Strictly speaking, they are actually succulent aloe plants that can grow up to 33 feet high. The Bushman and Hottentot tribes use the hollow branches of this […]
Norway is the First Country in the World to Commit to Zero Deforestation!
Norway’s parliament has pledged the government’s public procurement policy will become deforestation-free. A committee of MPs recommended imposing regulations to ensure the country did “not contribute to deforestation of the rainforest”. Apart from this, Norway also funds forest conservation projects across the world and supports human rights programmes for forest communities. Nils Hermann Ranum, the head […]
Purple Trees at Germany’s Black Forest
Purple Trees at Germany’s Black Forest! Purple is a versatile color. It combines the fire of red with the serenity of blue and has the ability to soothe as well as excite passion. Purple is prevalent in nature in everything from eggplants to amethysts and humans have adopted it as a symbol of royalty. […]
Poem_William
Natures Picture nature is a picture for all the world to see the earth its canvas and its gallery always on display if we just take a look lots of different pictures like a picture book filled with lots of colors flowers birds and bees lots and lots of blossom growing on the trees […]
Poem_Timothy Mooney
Trees I like trees, so lush and green (Ghosts of Winter, Dark, and Mean) Tall and stately, steadfast, true (Phantom bones all cold, and blue) Reaching up to Touch the Sky (stealing children walking by) Apple blossom, Maple branch (Midnight’s when they walk and dance) Oh! Their whisper-windy song! (Snag you as you walk […]
Poem_Rose
Sleeping Beauty Spring If I could paint a picture It would be of this tree Sun shining through Branches tickling me I rest at its trunk Read aloud to a bee Two small spotted skunks Are both here to see The sun and the tree Listen gently 100-something ants On a voyage All around […]
Poem_Relic
An Autumn Tree Romance Vibrant leaves of autumn with slender fibrous arms… October shed and shook’m, degrading all their charms. These fire-colored flags cascaded through a twirl, in crinkled rigid skin transformed by chilly swirl. For the many leaves fallen from branches high-elite, a chilly north-bred swish– delivered them defeat. As for elms that […]
Poem_Rabindranath Tagore
The Banyan Tree – A poem by Rabindranath Tagore O you shaggy-headed banyan tree standing on the bank of the pond, have you forgotten the little child, like the birds that have nested in your branches and left you? Do you not remember how he sat at the window and wondered at the tangle […]