Alaskan Upside Down Trees

A great article by AmusingPlanet.com on upside-down trees.


http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/12/upside-down-trees-at-glacier-gardens-in.html

Ash Dieback Symptoms and Ident - Chalara fraxinea

Ash Dieback - Chalara fraxinea - Symptoms and identification video.   This has already affected 90% of Ash trees in Denmark, hopefully we can spread the word and avoid the same fate in Britain.  Would keep me in work for years, but would also be terrible, if we were faced with another outbreak of a similar severity to Dutch Elm Diseases in the 70s and 80s..

Albino Redwood

Redwoods can grow from the roots of other redwoods, by layering. This means that they don't need to photosynthesise to obtain energy for growth, as you can see in this pic where there is a total absence of chlorophyll, leaving the leaf lacking in green pigmentation.