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I'm Following a Tree
Are You?
A Growing List!
It's now 2013 I'm updating this list. The links in bold are to blogs I know are continuing with Tree Following this year. If you are too, please let me know by leaving a comment on this page. Once the list is up to date, I'll re-do it to make it look neater!
And - don't forget Treeblogging
which aggregates posts about trees
from a wide range of blogs.
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Many were disappointed when Natalie's 'Tree Year' came to an end. Some had been 'following' a tree or trees for a while and it had been good to be in touch with others doing the same. Others, newly inspired to observe a particular tree through its seasons had become so attached to 'their' tree, they wanted to carry on.
But enabling such connections can take much time and . . . a year is, after all, a year! Enormous thanks to Natalie for the work she put into this!
I have been observing several trees over the last few years - not as a scientist, more as an interested neighbour and, now the 'official' Tree Year has come to an end, I'm offering a way, through Loose and Leafy, for 'Tree Followers' to keep in touch.
It will be very unsophisticated . . . simply let me know if you are following the life of a particular tree, a particular group of trees, plants growing round an individual tree, life on a fallen or felled tree, a woodland path It may be a young tree you have planted in your garden. It may be a mature tree growing wild. The special point is to go back to the same place through the year and see what's happening. There's no minimum or maximum number of posts - just a continuing connection with a tree.
Whenever you post about 'your' tree, let me know and I'll put a link to it from the end of the latest post on Loose and Leafy. And there'll be space in the sidebar for announcing additions to the list and other 'news'.
Everything about Tree Following here is very informal, very loose - often leafy!
(If you'd like to use the tree motif on your blog to show you are taking part - please feel free to do so.)
16 comments:
Yes Lucy I would like to be added to this list with my post on Corylus contorta 'Red Majestic' and I'll add a link to this post.
Hey Lucy - I didn't know / realize (or maybe forgot) that you are doing this!
Great to see it living on :-)
I finally got going on my tree-following:
http://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2012/10/im-following-tree.html
thanks for the idea!
Hi Lucy - I forgot to tell you about this one. It's the third in a series of four : http://experiments-with-plants.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/london-plane-tree-20-sep-2012.html
Hi Lucy - Here's the final post on plane trees.
Thanks b-a-g. Have included your link in the latest list of Tree Following posts.
managed a long lasting look at my Elms Lucy
Thanks, Eljaygee - I've not put the link in this week's post (it's horribly long) but I'll do a tree-post special and put it in there.
Lucy
Hi Lucy - are you still tree following in 2013? I have my tree though you may not recognise me under my new guise
http://telltaletherapy.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/tree-watch-what-am-i/
Laura aka patiopatch/eljaygee/tell tale therapy ;)
Hi Lucy
I'm putting together an article (and post) about plant blogging for our plant society newsletter in March. I hope to get our local plant folks interested in joining the phytoblogosphere (I'm a bit envious of your Dorset group!). May I use a screen capture of your site as an illustration? with due credit of course. I would probably use something from the tree-following page.
thanks, Hollis
That's fine, Hollis.
Lucy, your post inspired me to follow a tree. I'm keeping an eye on a young cedar elm, beginning here: http://natureisoutthere.blogspot.com/2013/03/be-careful-tree-someones-following-you.html
Hi Lucy - I have no plans to follow a tree this year, so please remove me from the list for now. I'll get back in touch if I change my mind. Thanks b-a-g
Thanks for letting me know b-a-g. Hope you do think of following a tree again sometime.
I just found your blog through Catmint over at Diary of a Suburban Gardener. Great idea about tree following. I have established trees, so I'm wondering if it has to be a new tree?
Ooops, if I would just read the instructions more carefully, I would see what to do. I have two fascinating Shagbark Hickories that I've posted about before, so maybe I'll "follow" them. You might be interested in this guy's book and website: That Tree.
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