A tree puzzle

[roadster]

We must not forget all the poor walnut trees which, for thousands of years, have been beaten. Referenced in both ancient Greek and Sanskrit literature.

[radioman]

All this has reminded me of the episode "The Sound Machine" from 'Tales of the Unexpected'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD474STkU08
It certainly stuck in my mind after I watched it all those years ago...

Andy

[BusyBee]

                       
Bit of a drastic approach there Tracy to a disappointing harvest, a bit kill or cure,

That is exactly how it was described in the manual. I don't like to kill anything, even plants, so had a long hard look before I did it. I remembered a tree that someone did cut around the bark years ago and it survived so I knew a bit about it. My ethos is to be at one with nature.

Tracy

[Doodlebug]

I didn't hammer in 6 inch nails, only 2 inch nails, so only 1/3 of the pain.

BTW, I planted 50 varied British tree species on my land 40 years ago,
including 2 Aspens which are now giants over 120 ft tall.
People say oaks grow slowly.  You should see my giants.

So I have done my bit to absorb CO2 and generate Oxygen to help keep
this village alive !  :-)

   

[ppppenguin]

Lovely thing to do and lovely to have the land to do it on. You don't plant oak in an ordinary suburban garden like mine.

[Refugee]

If I plant trees I try to choose ones that produce fruit that I like to eat where practical.
Even gooseberries can be used as a security hedge. I am yet to find an evergreen fruit plant sutible for security hedging that has nice fruit. Fire-thorn still lives here.
It is cut flowers that get me. Fancy cutting the reproductive organs off a plant only to take them indoors to ogle at them.

[ppppenguin]

I will be planting 3 apple trees in my garden later this year. I will also be converting most of the tatty lawn into a wildflower meadow. There are already quite a few wild flowers in there so it should happen pretty much naturally.

Was out walking in the Chilterns yesterday and saw a field full of large daisies. Clearly grown as a crop but didn't look like they were for the cut flower business. No idea why they were being grown like that.

[Diabolical Artificer]

"All this has reminded me of the episode "The Sound Machine" from 'Tales of the Unexpected'." I remember seeing that as a kid, and being similarly moved. I was reminded of this when I read Lyle Watson's Supernature which describes experiments of wiring plants up to test gear and "torturing" them to see if there was any response, there was. they got a false negative one day when the wired plants "reacted" but with no "stimulus" , they researcher was puzzled till he remembered he'd been cutting the grass or pruning roses, can't remember which.

"That is exactly how it was described in the manual...." Yes, I had heard of it, I remember a teacher talking about it when I was at Brooksby. It's pretty well known that plants react to stress, this year wild roses and other plants are flowering like mad due to it being so dry. Sorry for the flippant reply Tracey.

Nice to have a bit of land Albert, never did get around to buying or squatting land in order to get a few acres. I planted 1000's of trees years ago as part of the National Forest, on old mine workings and such. There's a few hectares I helped plant near Grantham I go back to now and again, nice to see the trees doing well. Done b*gger all with my life, it's about the only thing I can say I did that was good, that will live on. Sorry to give you gyp, my ex partner called me a "treebore", ... "can't go for a bl**dy walk without it turning into a tree lecture". I drive my daughter mad also.

"I am yet to find an evergreen fruit plant sutible for security hedging that has nice fruit." What about Holly - Ilex Aquifolium, evergreen, spiky, lots of variegated varieties and the taxonomists have names all the males females and vice versa so you get to share a joke with similar minded plant nerds. The fruit is edible, tastes better after a frost though.

Andy.

[ppppenguin]

Ruth took a photo of me in the field of daisies. Can one of you more countrywise fellows tell us why a whole field of them is being grown?

Managed to get back to the car before the heavens opened.

[Nick]

Ruth took a photo of me in the field of daisies. Can one of you more countrywise fellows tell us why a whole field of them is being grown?

Managed to get back to the car before the heavens opened.

Tea.

Camomile/Chamomile tea to be precise.