thetreehunter
Vernon Oak, Dore
I’d like to nominate myself, Vernon Oak, please. I think I’m a ‘Great Tree of Sheffield’. There are thousands of street trees in Sheffield and most of the time nobody takes much notice of us. But when the council decided I should be felled, the residents in my street put up posters in their windows saying ‘Let’s save the Vernon Oak’. Art and poetry were put on my trunk. People hugged me and danced around me. I believe I was the first Sheffield tree to tweet (@SAVEDORETREES ) about the danger facing the trees in Sheffield and now I have over 550 followers. I’ve also been interviewed by Joanna Dobson: joannadobson.com/2017/01/22/exclusive-interview-with-a-th...
I’m just an ordinary street tree growing on a quiet S17 street but I’m extraordinary too, in the way that all trees are extraordinary. I clean the air; I produce oxygen; I give shelter and food to hundreds of species; I show the passing of the seasons; I lessen the effects of too much sun and rain; I am beautiful; I give joy; I help to make people stay healthy and feel better. Yes, ordinary but extraordinary, just like the other threatened trees in Sheffield. That’s why ordinary people are doing extraordinary things (like tweeting as a tree) to try to save them.
Vernon Oak, Dore
I’d like to nominate myself, Vernon Oak, please. I think I’m a ‘Great Tree of Sheffield’. There are thousands of street trees in Sheffield and most of the time nobody takes much notice of us. But when the council decided I should be felled, the residents in my street put up posters in their windows saying ‘Let’s save the Vernon Oak’. Art and poetry were put on my trunk. People hugged me and danced around me. I believe I was the first Sheffield tree to tweet (@SAVEDORETREES ) about the danger facing the trees in Sheffield and now I have over 550 followers. I’ve also been interviewed by Joanna Dobson: joannadobson.com/2017/01/22/exclusive-interview-with-a-th...
I’m just an ordinary street tree growing on a quiet S17 street but I’m extraordinary too, in the way that all trees are extraordinary. I clean the air; I produce oxygen; I give shelter and food to hundreds of species; I show the passing of the seasons; I lessen the effects of too much sun and rain; I am beautiful; I give joy; I help to make people stay healthy and feel better. Yes, ordinary but extraordinary, just like the other threatened trees in Sheffield. That’s why ordinary people are doing extraordinary things (like tweeting as a tree) to try to save them.