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.

Free eBook - John Davey - The Tree Doctor (1907)

http://ia700104.us.archive.org/17/items/treedoctorbookon00daveiala/treedoctorbookon00daveiala.pdf

Climbing digital art

I used some image filters from BeFunky.com to create this image.

Dizzying heights

And again. Up the same tree. Thrashing around like a stuck pig.

Oak reduction away from house

Here's expert local climber James Bradford, 2000ft up a giant Oak tree in Claygate.

Surrey woodcarver Roger Day

Beautiful sculptures crafted in wood from an expert Surrey craftsman.

See www.rogerday.eu

Redwood Old Growth Logging Photo

Imagine felling this beauty by hand!

Typhula erythropus... perhaps

I found this growing on a damp old beech log in a logpile. Looked quite pretty, so I thought I'd take a photo or two so I could find out what it is.

Rogers mushroom guide seems to think it is Typhula erythropus, common throughout autumn in deciduous woodland in both Europe and America.

It's also known as the Redleg Club, and it's not edible. There seems to be nothing more to say about it, the internet doesn't say a great deal. Needless to say, it'll be burning on someone's fire somewhere in the coming weeks.