I took a photograph of the primary Oak tree up the lane on the twenty seventh January to begin a yr of Following a Tree.
Right here it’s this month, after a month of frequent rain and hardly any chilly climate. It seems to be a lot the identical.
I’ve realised this isn’t the most effective tree for photographs because it’s on the opposite facet of the ditch so I can not get shut up.
These are the 2 Oaks additional up the lane, the proper facet of the ditch for photographing the trunk and shut up of the leaves and buds.
Who lives in a house like this?
And Ivy is a house for all types and a meals supply for a lot of bugs too
Oak timber are one among 500 timber of the Quercus household. The most important and longest-lived of Britain’s native timber.
The monarch oak, the patriarch of timber,
Shoots rising up, and spreads by sluggish diploma;
Three centuries he grows, and three he stays
Supreme in state, and in three extra decays.
John Dryden
Prior to now oaks had been usually used to mark the boundaries of English parishes and native dignitaries and villagers would “Beat the Bounds” and stroll the boundaries annually reciting passages from the gospels.
In plant lore the oak is an emblem of braveness, independence, religion, longevity, hearth, stability, honour and reward. The tree was sacred to the sky and thunder gods, significantly Jupiter, the supreme deity of Roman mythology and was generally known as Jove’s tree and couldn’t be struck by lightening in a storm.
The oak is an emblem of England and was on the badge of the Stuarts. A sprig of oak leaves was worn in button holes and caps on twenty ninth Might to commemorate the birthday of Charles II who hid in an oak after the battle of Worcestor in 1651.
The oak had all types of makes use of in medication. Culpepper stated the bark, leaves and powdered acorn cups ‘bind and dry very a lot’. The interior bark and the skinny pores and skin overlaying overlaying the acorn was suggested for these spitting blood, whereas the bark and powdered acorn was stated to be an antidote to toxic herbs and medication.
Floor acorns have been utilized in occasions of starvation to make a flour however extra normally used to feed pigs though there was some recommendation on this.
Although good retailer of acorns the porkling do fats
Not taken in season might perish of that,
If pig do begin rattling and choking in throat
Thou loosest thy porkling – a pig to a groat!
Data from my e book ‘ The Treasury of Tree Lore’ by Josephine Addison and Cherry Hillhouse.
It was a foggy morning after I walked up the lane. I ought to have waited an hour as a result of the fog cleared to present a day WITHOUT RAIN! Such a uncommon prevalence this month that it wants the capital letters.
It wants greater than in the future with out rain to cease the water operating off the fields – however the newly laid land drains are working effectively.
Again Tomorrow
Sue
