Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
Perhaps this is why we feel so drawn to trees. Groves of redwoods and beeches are often compared to the naves of great cathedrals: the silence; the green, filtered, numinous…
In spring, you can feel life stirring in the barest twigs and the silhouetted catkins look as if a diminutive duck has run across the sky. One day the…
From an extract published here Leaves must produce food out of thin air, or else there is no tree. Luckily for nature and all of us, they are extraordinarily good…
… because it is still rather small. Earlier this year (I think in February) I bought an Elstar tree from the garden centre. One of the pleasures of recent months…
Séamus Sweeney 