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The car stopped at the traffic lights, on the Thames Embankment, at Millbank (London SW1), so I took a photo. It is a style of architecture labelled, I believe by the cognoscenti as "brutalist"... typical of the reign of the concrete in the late 1950's, early 1960's....
Narrow gauge curtain wall on broad gauge foundation with culvert at Planetrees. Looking N
Handbook pp.188–9.
One of the largest of London's private squares, designed and laid out by John Nash, dominated by plane trees said to have been planted in 1817 to commemorate the allied victory at Waterloo two years earlier. Other trees of note include a tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) and weeping silver lime (Tilia tomentosa 'Petiolaris')
An original and unique feature of the garden is the Nursemaids' Tunnel, an early pedestrian underpass connecting the Square to Park Crescent. The tunnel passes under the busy Marylebone Road, allowing families to promenade safely through both gardens without worrying about the noisy public throng passing overhead.
The combination of Park Square and Crescent was designed to form a transitional entrance feature to Regent’s Park, leading the visitor from the formal Nash streetscape of Portland Place in the south, to the green and picturesque landscape in the north. It was described as a 'sort of vestibule' to the new royal park. New gates and railings have been installed to original designs.
The gardens retain most of their original Nash layout and have been managed continuously from their inception by an organisation specifically set up in 1824 to carry out this task, the Crown Estate Paving Commission.
[Open Garden Squares website]
Legend has it that Hippocrates himself planted this large plane tree in Kos Town, and taught under its shade. In truth, the tree is less than 600 years old - old enough, however, to require the support of scaffolding!
Siesta time in Viannos, Crete, Greece © Patricia Fenn. All Rights Reserved. No usage allowed including copying or sharing without written permission. www.PatriciaFennGallery.com
Mottisfont Abbey -A sign next to this tree reads "This magnificent specimen of the 'London Plane' is reputed to be the largest of its type in Britain. Although no exact record of its planting exists, it probably dates from the first half of the 18th century. The tree is aproximately 40 metres tall, with a girth of 12 metres. The area covered by its branches is in excess of 1500 square meters (1990)."
The Diarizos Valley lies west to south west of the Troodos mountain range and takes its name from the river Diarizos which runs through it. This valley has a wide variety of fauna and flora, with a number of protected species.
Mylikouri is a small village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, located just south of Kykkos Monastery.
The Troodos National Forest Park covers an area of 9,147 hectares around Mount Olympus. It is an area of great natural beauty, suitable for activities such as hiking, biking and camping .
Cyprus has the warmest climate and warmest winters in the Mediterranean part of the European Union.
According to legend, Hippocrates of Kos used to teach his students the art of medicine under this plane tree, in Kos town, on the Greek island of Kos.
The current tree is probably only about 500 years old, but it's possible that it may be a descendant of the original tree which allegedly stood there 2400 years ago, in Hippocrates' time.
Viannos high street at siesta time, Crete, Greece © Patricia Fenn. All Rights Reserved. No usage allowed including copying or sharing without written permission. www.PatriciaFennGallery.com
Urban (ɜːʳbən) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Urban means belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.
Arborist (ˈɑːrbərɪst)
noun
A specialist in the cultivation and care of trees and shrubs, including tree surgery, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tree diseases, and the control of pests
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How do you manage trees that were planted in the 1960s as part of post-war housing development in the third decade of the 21st Millennium? With great care, dinosaur smoke and mankind’s great pursuit in conquest over nature.
The process being undertaken in these photos is what's called pollarding, where a trees limbs are removed entirely to encourage later dense growth within 1 to 2 years. Only certain species of trees can handle this brutal operation, like these London Plane trees here. Once a tree is pollarded, it has to be regularly maintained in 5-10 year operations.
Historically, wood harvested from this method would be used to feed livestock or for light timber, but these days, thanks to the infernal combustion engine, two operatives can pollard five trees in as many hours, with the tree limbs being quite violently mechanically separated and carted off to be used either as mulch or biofuel.
I find arboriculture rather fascinating; living amongst the trees in an urban environment, arborists have been a regular sight over the years, performing everything from whole tree clearings to dead wood pruning, I’ve seen them do a lot.
It’s a highly skilled profession with some of the most dangerous and violent tools possible in the workplace – Darwin Award nominees are quickly weeded out.
There is a strange beauty to the brutality of efficiency, especially towards articles of nature.