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Tree species should be dictated by quality rather than origin - 05 June 2024

Celebrate your Irish roots by starting your own Irish history with the Irish Heritage Tree program. From the "Hungry tree" that is eating a bench to the oldest sycamore in Ireland, a look at Ireland's ancient trees, by the Tree Council of Ireland. 

Contributions of Thomas Pakenham, Seamus O’Brien and Paddy Mackie recognised

SHARING OPTIONS: Gavin Lynch with some of his Shorthorn herd, combines dairy and sheep farming with hazel growing in this agroforestry section of Hells Kettle Organic Farm, Donard, Co Wicklow. Forestry is identified as one of the land uses that has “high-level targets for 2030” in the recently launched draft agri-food strategy 2030. The strategy contains a number of positive objectives for forestry to “increase afforestation and double the sustainabl...

TsukuBlog A Local Perspective on Life in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. See the “Handkerchief Tree” (Davidia involucrata) Flutter Like White Doves in the Breeze – at the Tsukuba Botanical Garden 18 April, 2021   Davidia involucrata is named after the man who “discovered” it, and introduced it to the west – the great naturalist (and Catholic missionary in China) Armand David (1826-1900) – who also gave Europe knowledge of the giant panda and Pere David`s deer – along with 63 previous...

Early on in this memoir the author comments on Taiwan’s rich flora — that it came from many places, washed ashore or was borne on the winds. Two Trees make a Forest in general takes up this theme with regard to Taiwan’s human population, and proceeds to investigate the author’s ancestors though reference to the nation’s trees and climbing plants. Jessica Lee’s grandparents moved to Taiwan from China along with the influx of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) forces in 1949. They sub...