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Greengage Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 3067 Location: Kildare
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kindredspirit Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 10 Nov 2008 Posts: 2283 Location: Mid-west.
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That looks a tiddler compared to ones in Mountshannon, Co. Clare, a Quaker village on the shores of Lough Derg.
The Mountshannon ones make your jaw drop and you'll fall over backwards if you try to see to the top when you're standing beneath them. _________________ .
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A little garden in Co. Limerick. Some non-gardening photographs. |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2028 Location: West Fermanagh
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What an amazing twist the trunk has - almost a corkscrew. _________________ Be humble, for you are made of earth
Be noble, for you are made of stars |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5146 Location: Co. Wexford
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There was a programme on over the christmas period, on C4 , about the top ten trees in Britain. It was actually very interesting. Ardal O'Hanlon presented it. I think there was 3 on this fair isle I think. An oak won it. The original Bramley apple tree was in it. _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2028 Location: West Fermanagh
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Yes I saw (most of) that.It was good. _________________ Be humble, for you are made of earth
Be noble, for you are made of stars |
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 919 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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How much of it is folklore I don't know but there's a yew in the churchyard of Fortingall on Tayside that's reputed to be 3000 years old, i.e. when Nebuchadnezzah was king of the Jews. It's all propped up with supports, or was when I last saw it in the early 80s. _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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