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Thorpe House Ash tree
This tree is one the many Ash trees in the Thorpe House area of Sheffield. The estate was built in the 1930s and I guess the trees were planted at the same time so this tree is about 80 years old.
My road runs parallel to the road this tree is on and our gardens back onto each other. I can see it, through the roofs on the left of the photo, from my workroom and my kitchen windows. It's a tall, strong, constant companion. I watch it through the seasons, from it's vibrant green in summer, to the elegant outline of it's branches against the winter sky. I watch the birds fighting for it's territory, a welcome distraction from the washing up!
Ash trees are also environmentally important. Lichen, invertebrates and fungi all live there happily, bats roost and birds nest in them. And in Sheffield, they are more special because, so far, they don't appear to be suffering from Ash Dieback. It seems to have spread around and above the Sheffield area, but not into it.
Since I joined the STAG campaign to try and save thousands of our street trees, I walk past it most days, and I (silently) talk to it. I tell it we will do our very best for it, we will look after it. And if we can't save it, at least several of it's children live on in our gardens.
It currently wears it's own execution notice.
Thorpe House Ash tree
This tree is one the many Ash trees in the Thorpe House area of Sheffield. The estate was built in the 1930s and I guess the trees were planted at the same time so this tree is about 80 years old.
My road runs parallel to the road this tree is on and our gardens back onto each other. I can see it, through the roofs on the left of the photo, from my workroom and my kitchen windows. It's a tall, strong, constant companion. I watch it through the seasons, from it's vibrant green in summer, to the elegant outline of it's branches against the winter sky. I watch the birds fighting for it's territory, a welcome distraction from the washing up!
Ash trees are also environmentally important. Lichen, invertebrates and fungi all live there happily, bats roost and birds nest in them. And in Sheffield, they are more special because, so far, they don't appear to be suffering from Ash Dieback. It seems to have spread around and above the Sheffield area, but not into it.
Since I joined the STAG campaign to try and save thousands of our street trees, I walk past it most days, and I (silently) talk to it. I tell it we will do our very best for it, we will look after it. And if we can't save it, at least several of it's children live on in our gardens.
It currently wears it's own execution notice.