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Nature walks Trees Walking Winter

24th January 2024

Grandmother Lime – To The Trees Edition #47

Grandmother lime is a small-leaved lime, 'Tilia Cordata', registered on the ancient tree inventory with veteran status. Her vast trunk has swelled to an impressive 5.4m and shows all the…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Trees Walking Winter

27th November 2023

The Willows – To The Trees Edition #46

Summer sounds of scuff and scrape have long been replaced with Winter’s squelch and squidge as earth becomes sodden under the fall of recent storms. As I wade across the…

Matt Witt

Antiquaries Autumn Nature walks Oak Trees Walking

28th October 2023

The Oak of Avalon – To The Trees Edition #45

Inspired by recent investigations into the antiquities of Glastonbury, I have fallen quite willingly into the intriguing history of one of our most prominent oaks. Stood upon the eastern banks…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Summer Trees Walking

2nd October 2023

Equinox Explorations – To The Trees Edition #44

Equinox is a time of in-between, when the day and night come to meet halfway forcing the light and dark to clash in an epic show down. Around one corner…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Summer Trees Walking

31st August 2023

The Reddening – To The Trees Edition #43

Hawthorn and Tor. If last month's hedgerows were hunched under the weight of the rain, this month they bow further still with a bounty of plumping fruit. Thanks in part…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Summer Trees Walking

1st August 2023

Silver Lining- To The Trees Edition #42

Many of this month's walks have been carefully planned to span the gaps between one shower and the next, darting from orchard to orchard to experience the next downpour from…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Summer Trees Walking

3rd July 2023

Midsummer – To The Trees Edition #41

Summer Solstice Sunrise 2023 On the days surrounding the Solstice, the sunrise reaches its farthest point North on the horizon, bringing it into alignment with the axis of the…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Summer Trees Walking

5th June 2023

Between Spring and Summer – To The Trees Edition #40

At this time of the year, the business of the trees’ apparently indiscriminate intimacy is drawing to a close - The male flowers of many trees, having fulfilled the purpose…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Trees Walking

5th May 2023

Beltane in Glastonbury – To The Trees Edition #39

A verdant tide now rises; hedgerows swell, canopies expand, and verges brim and spill into the narrowing lanes of Stone down. The seal is finally broken and Spring’s envelope opens…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Trees Walking Winter

5th April 2023

Waiting for Spring – To The Trees Edition #38

Of late, walking has seemed like a mission focused on treading Winter into the past and tugging Spring closer with each step. During February alone, I watched in the region…

Matt Witt

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