I’m partial to the Tulip Poplar (White Poplar, Tulip Tree.) The leaves are big enough to make a wonderful noise in a good breeze, and they are rife with creamy flowers in the spring.
–Nott
I’m partial to the Tulip Poplar (White Poplar, Tulip Tree.) The leaves are big enough to make a wonderful noise in a good breeze, and they are rife with creamy flowers in the spring.
–Nott
I have a “thing” for emblems. Being Aussie, I love wattles. The scent that the little fluffy yellow flowers give off is heavenly!
I also love camellias, which are the emblem for Matsuyama. And hence my log-in name.
Since I was very small, I’ve loved birch trees for looks, and nearly all fruit trees for fruit. Maybe figs are my favorite fruit tree, since my neighbor had a great one when I was small, and apples tend to be a bit easier to find around here.
Banyans. They are just the perfect tree for climbing, playing, swinging (on vines and swings) building tee houses and justlounging around in.
The Amur Maple (Acer ginnala).
Simply gorgeous. Can be multi-trunked or pruned into a standard. Distinctive leaf with its long tongue that turn a scarlet red in the fall. Moderate grower and just as graceful as can be. Outstanding tree.
I sure do miss them. (We have moved to a different climate and they will not survive here. Sigh)
I like the maple. Plain old maple. Nice to look at in the fall.
Pine or weeping willow.
Ghost gums in the sun with storm clouds behind them.
Harry Lauder’s walking stick. It’s kind of hard to describe, but the branches grow in corkscrews and has a kind of gnarled look. It would look cool in the winter when you can see all the bare branches.
Figs, pomegranates and seckel pears for fruit.
Pine and juniper for scent.
Orange trees for the most heavenly scent on earth.
Willows for scenery.
Mulberries, maples and oaks for shade (although I’m terribly allergic to mulberry pollen!).
And clair, chestnuts might be common in France (lucky you!) but the American chestnuts were nearly all wiped out by blight, so cedar is much more common in the US.
“The world is so full of a number of things
That I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
Oh, and palo verde for the lacy foilage!
The Rowan, or Mountain Ash.
They seem to grow singly in UK woods, often surrounded by much larger and darker trees and this makes them stand out.
Thier berries attract lots of songbirds, I love to watch Thrushes feeding from them.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jubileetrees/british-native-trees/bnt-35.htm
I think it’s a contorta (contorted hazelnut). If you’re visiting the southern Oregon coast, there’s a nice one in the garden at a motel in Gold Beach called Ireland’s.
I love Scots Pines. The old red of the bark and the bluish green of the needles against a blue sky: beautiful.
Deodor Cedars are one of my favorites. I was going to plant a crooked line of them on the street-facing part of my property, but when I showed them to my then-ten-year-old son Zach, he thought they were kind of creepy.
I ended up planting Leyland Cypress trees instead, which are a cross between a Monterey Cypress and a cedar. They’re nice, but not as interestingly crooked.
Love paper birches. And maples, all kinds. Oaks (but not wild about the tan oak that grows wild out here). Madrones! Firs and pines. Cherry trees. (ok, I’m not done, but I’ll stop now)
Sycamores. Jenner’s Giant Sequoias are a close second.
Another Primate - I think you’re right. I knew it was some kind of nut tree, but couldn’t remember which one.
There is a form of willow that has contorted branches too.
I don’t think the branches would be hard enough for walking sticks, though, would they?
When I come back it will be as a black bear in a jack pine forest. All day long I’ll scritch-scratch-scritch my back up agains the trees.
For now, I’ll have to settle for smelling the cedars in the spring, hugging the ancient white and red pines in the summer, and looking at the maples in fall.