Come to Scotland, all your friends live here...

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There was a nice article in the Guardian this weekend about the replanting of part of Scotland's pine forests -the pictures are available online now.

The original article talks about it being a 250 year project, which, in these short-term days, I love.

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Hooray for trees

One of my favourite snippits of information is how oak trees planted on the orders of Lord Nelson in 1802 at the Royal Forest of Dean, were used to restore HMS Victory in time for the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

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happybat told me once about an article she'd read where some patron of one of the old colleges at Oxford had willed a stand of oak trees to the instiution. Theyw were to be used in the future to restore the ceiling beams of the dining room or some such thing.

Awesomely, when someone was poking around the college's archives in the 90's, they uncovered this document. The oaks were will standing and had grown to maturity over 300 years.

*hug + love* for planting what you want to harvest, and for believing the building and the purpose for it would still be there when they were neede.

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An ancestor of mine, apparently, used to wander around County Down with a pocket full of acorns that he'd scatter in appropriate places to ensure that there would always be enough oak trees to keep the Navy in ships....

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Lovely. And I read last week that the desk in the Oval Office is made from timbers from a Navy ship (HMS Intrepid, I think) and that the matching desk is somewhere in Buck House.

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That was probably why we had no trees in Maryhill - they'd all been willed to Oxford...

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...at least that was his story...

(welcome in, btw)