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When it comes to giant trees Studley Royal Deer Park, Ripon, North Yorkshire has some awesome examples doted about the open parkland. When trees grow in open parkland they are able to grow unobstructed in every way creating magnificent giant characters that are now often only found in storybooks. Imagine how it must feel to be a tree growing in parkland free from the rivalry that growing in woodland brings, to stretch out and be yourself to be able to be whom you are meant to be, free as a tree can be. So for chilled out trees these open parks are an ideal place to view a tree who knows who they are. Also with it been late winter you get the added bonus of seeing them naked, with not a leaf on. Trees with leafs are admirable but there is nothing like a naked tree to really get to know it up close and personal. It’s believed some of the tree’s in this park have journeyed around the sun some 300 times or so. Can trees get any better than this, of course as some of these are sweet chestnuts, come this autumn another visit will surely have to be in order.
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| please don't eat me |
As you can see this oak tree is totally awesome, with Carrie standing next to it you can get an idea of the magnitude. Just imagine the size of the root structure underground with a trunk base the size it has, mind blowing. A little extra gem with this oak is the fact that it has a window. Unfortunately as you can see from the photo below this must be a summer residence only for the tree elves as they not home today, sadly they have even removed all of their furniture.
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| reach out |
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| lets look through the oak window |
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| empty house inside the oak tree, awesome |
Next we have this sweet chestnut tree, how about one of these
in your forest garden back home, you certainly wouldn't be going short of nuts.
These trees have just the most wonderful bark. We're both so in love with these trees.
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| I love you |
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| epic sweet chestnut tree |
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| wow, so cool |
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sweet chestnut bark
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| here I stand waiting for you |
Take a moment to think about all the changes this oak tree
has lived through. When it was planted there were no aircraft ripping up our skies only the genital flutter of birds and the soft hum from alien space craft, the industrial revolution was just beginning. War
up on war has come and gone and after all this here stands the mighty oak
waiting for somebody to come along and listen to its story.
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| listen and I shall share a story of a land long forgotten |
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| I'm going in |
It’s not always easy been a tree living on open parkland especially when you are on a hill, lightening’s a dreaded thing. Walking around the park we came across several trees who had paid the price for growing so nice. Some are shadows of their former lives now just lying on the ground waiting for nature to take her course. Others have been more fortunate only lousing a limb here and there. We discovered this oak that has had a limb blown off with a lightning strike not so long ago burning a large part of it away and creating an entrance revealing a hollow trunk.
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| the inside of an oak tree that is still growing |
