Comments on: Reunions with Trees that I Have Known (and Planted)

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:00 +0000

Thank you for your article – what a great idea. I’m a year into a backgarden forest gardening project (Landed – Forest gardening). Even though I look at the trees I’ve planted every day, I don’t get tired of watching them grow and change. When you grow fruit trees and you prune them there is a permanent record of your interaction with them. Your actions shape your environment in a direct way and the consequences develop over a long period of time.

By: rhizowen

rhizowen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:52:08 +0000

I expect the blackwood would make an excellent bee forage and it is also used by guitar makers(in Australia at least). I’d be interested to know how much frost those trees have experienced. Alders are brilliant. The ones that we helped plant some years ago at the Pentiddy Community Woodland, near Pensilva, Cornwall, are now soaring skywards. Incidentally, Ele and Anthony Waters of Pentiddy Woods, who donated the land http://www.pentiddy.co.uk/ have just got planning permission to build a permanent dwelling on their permaculture smallholding. Brilliant news.

By: David Licata

David Licata — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:04:57 +0000

What a beautiful post. Thank you. If I may share…

I recently visited the house I grew up in. In the backyard, still there, was a lovely dogwood tree my family had planted. It had reached it’s peak height while I lived there, but it was so nice to see it again. Instead of that sense of time passing, I had a sense of continuity.

In the front yard, however, a clematis that climbed up a light pole, showering it in purple, was no longer there, and this saddened me deeply and made me think of impermanence.

Still and all, “…planting trees means that a part of us is always rooted to that place.”

Plant on.