Friday 3 December 2010

Trees- What's in a Name?

We have a fair few trees on this property (sadly not as many as I'd like but we're working to rectify that). However, I have to confess that it's a steep learning curve for me to learn to identify them all and their uses. For instance, here are two Birch trees. They're obviously two differing species but up until now they have both just been 'birch' to me.

I have been aided by my trusty arborists bible "Trees" and this fantastic website http://www.2020site.org/trees/

And then there's another useful piece of information on the following website that gives lots of common trees and their names in english, french, german, dutch and its botanical latin name.
http://www.woodworking.co.uk/Technical/Trees/trees.html
This has proved very useful to me in sourcing more trees and in gaining the help of my farming neighbour when I need to know more about them.

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