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Kate Howlett's avatar

Thank you for sharing these delightful observations! Great photo of a ladybird larva—they're so cool and weird-looking!

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Zabby's avatar

Aren't they?! I've been spotting loads this week among the nettles - go take a look!

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Melissa Lee's avatar

I love to stand under my sycamore for the same reason!! I even put out a note about it. Thanks so much for sharing this information, it was really interesting 😊

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Zabby's avatar

Lucky you, being the guardian of such special trees!

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Ivar Gabot's avatar

Zabby

Few Beuks about Trees & Kent below but First a Song ( Middle Sister wanted a job at Woodland Trust so I wrote a Song to assist application but she Hated My Sycamore as Birds ate Purple Berries and Deposited on her car )

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Other ( Fellow ) Poet's Thoughts :-

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I wrote my sister Kate a song about my Sycamore Trees

Lisa O'Neill didn't say (in New Zealand) she liked trees for you to please

I sent it to the Woodland Trust and called it Tree Babies

Posted it to Lisa , she may like it possibly maybes

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Tree Babies/Woodland Trust

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I was born under the shade of a Sycamore Tree

Most Wonderous, Wonderful, Beautiful tree it seems to me

It means more to me than Human Beings

It means more than money or worldly things

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My brother says I'll Crown it to keep it in trim

Don't dare chop it down I replied to him

It marks the spot that I was born

The first thing I look at every morn

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It's leaves are covered in the little black spot

It must be affected by some type of rot

It failed to produce Sycamore Helicopter seeds

"Tree Babies" to prosper and grow that it needs

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I collected some seeds & acorns years ago and let them dry out

To go far and wide to plant them about

To send them to Ireland for Lisa O'Neill

"Tree Babies" to replace all the Oaks, Oliver Cromwell did steal

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Lyrics by © HughofDurham@Gmail.com

© BardofCleadon@Gmail.com

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Chorus

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Tree Babies/Woodland Trust

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Tree babies we grow for the Woodland Trust

Oxygen they provide is a great must

If you chop one down remember to plant

Three more Tree babies with a Government Grant

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Lyrics by © HughofDurham@Gmail.com

© BardofCleadon@Gmail.com

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A Pocket Book of British Trees

EHB Boulton , MC, MA.

2nd Ed 1941 Orig 1937

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The Observer's Book of Trees ( With Dust Jacket )

Herbert L Edlin Bsc Diploma in Forestry , F Inst . For

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TREE - a life story

David Suzuki & Wayne Grady - Art by Robert Bateman

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DK Pocket Nature - Trees - A Unique Photographic Guide to the trees of Britain and Europe

Allen Coombes

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The Little Guides - Kent ( 1950 )

Ronald F. Jessop

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Artist - Pablo Quentino Ralpho " Rango " D'Art-Ford lives in Kent

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Bartholomew's Revised Half Inch Contour Maps -Great Britain Sheet 10 - Kent - Price 5 /-

Bartholomew's - Maps

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Royal Wedding Souvenir - HRH The Duke of Kent and Miss Katharine Worsley - 8th June 1961

Royal Wedding Souvenir - HRH The Duke of Kent and Miss Katharine Worsley - 8th June 1961 - Daily Mail Publications

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Le Poete / Irish T'inker

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Rodin's Thinker

Irish T'inker

Represent Intellect

Le Poete - Respect !

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Lyrics by © HughofDurham@Gmail.com

© BardofCleadon@Gmail.com

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Ivar Gabot

Chartered Management Accountant

Lowest Paid Qualified Accountant for The Empress for over Twenty Years

( & THE BEST )

Philosopher Pauper and a Poet

Chilled Skilled Wordsmith

One Hundred and Sixty-One Songs since Lockdown

One Hundred and Eighty-Seven in Total

Cleadon Library - Not a Business but a Mission to Educate the World One Book at a Time

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Juliet Wilson's avatar

Excellent post, it's really important to actually look closely at nature! I always like to look up into a Sycamore tree and notice all the aphids, it's amazing how many there are sometimes.

I've been watching a pair of Carrion Crows recently, who chose to nest in a tree in a friend's garden, fascinating to watch them coming and going.

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Sarah Webb's avatar

Genius Zab! xxx

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