#80 Fairy Ash

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A huge thank you to all the Tree Story tellers from the Carlow Garden Festival 2023 . These one minute Tree Stories from the Carlow Garden Festival  range from simple heartfelt declarations for the natural world to historical stories from the 1700’s, from comical police searches for tree climbing gorillas to forest bathing

Sasha Sykes introduces her magical ancient Ash tree to us at An Gairdin Beo , where she visited the Carlow Garden Festival .

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Sasha’s words:

My story is about an Ash tree which is beside where I grew up in Lisnavagh (Carlow)

And there is …the Ash tree , its a really old Ash tree , its obviously been coppiced many many times .

I always knew it as the fairy tree when I was a kid I would go out there and play .

The Ash tree , I don’t know how old it was but it had huge burly root systems that had just come right up .

And in amongst the burls there was these little pools of water where I imagine the fairies would live and swim and they had this world .

So I used to go out there and spend hours playing there and it became much of the subject of my photography when I was younger .

And I bring my kids there in recent years although in recent years the tree has started to die and has hollowed out in the inside.

So I guess it was always heading that way in my life(-time) anyway.

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Note:

The video length for the Memory Palace is restricted to one minute but occasionally some pairs of story tellers here have stories in two parts

The order of the following three dozen tree stories from the Carlow Garden Festival ( starting from video #44 )  on this webpage are roughly in alphabetical order of story tellers.

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Acknowledgments :

A huge thank you to the brilliant videographer Patrick Bramley for his unique combination of diligence and easygoing manner encouraging people to open up and share their Tree Story with us, to Eileen O ‘ Rourke of the Carlow Tourist office for the early stage brainstorming and the following support, to the Carlow Garden Trail and the participating venues listed here

An Gairdin Beo Community Garden ， Carlow

Duckett’s Grove , County Carlow

Altamont Gardens and Altamont Plant Sales, near Tullow/Ballon

Huntington Castle & Gardens, Clonegal

Arboretum Home & Garden Heaven, Leighlinbridge

Borris House Gardens and Woodland, Borris

Kilgraney House, Bagenalstown

Hardymount Gardens, Tullow

Also sincere thank you to Carlow County Council Creative Ireland Carlow Funding without whose support the next three dozen Tree Stories on video would not have been possible.

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#1 Teardrops After a Storm

#2 Pomegranate Tree

#3 Trees are like Humans

#4 Old Ash – A Real Survivor

#5 Tree Rings of Life

#6 A Very Weird Elf

#7 Old Crabapple of Wenhua Dian

#8 Standing Fast

#9 Feeling Good – Tree Song

#10 Forest Breath – Tree Story

#11 Protective Peach – Tree Story

#12 Bee Tree (Part 1) Sycamore

#13 Winter Apples

#14 Ancient Yew Trees

#15 Once I Counted Birds

#16 Family Oak

#17 When the Trees Say Everything

#18 Strawberry Tree

#19 Mother Oak and Baby Oak

#20 My Leylandii

#21 Chestnut Repotted

#22 Native Birch

#23 Ethan’s Tree

#24 Holding Trunk of Time

#25 Our Mother’s Legacy

#26 It Blossomed

#27 Always Trying To Hold Each Other Up

#28 Wollemi Pine

#29 Barrow Willow

#30 For What We Might Become

#31 Sheltering Beech

#32 Millennium Monkey Puzzle

#33 Monterey Cyprus

#34 Struggle On, Struggle On

#35 Like A Chestnut

#36 Head and Shoulders Above

#37 An Dair Sean 

#38 Trees for the Forest 

#39 The year 1710 

#40  I Feel at Peace 

#41 Chongqing Cedar

#42 Unusual Bauhinia

# 43 Bamboo – Munro

#44 St Anne’s Oak

#45 Angie’s Umbrella Tree 

# 46  Berna’s Umbrella Tree

#47 Hawthorne , it gives and it gives

#48 Apple Tree Swing

#49 Forest Bathing 1

#50 Forest Bathing 2

#51  Mulberry -when Swiss watches were almost made in Waterford

#52 Prunus Kanzan , double blossom Cherry blossom

#53 Oak We absolutely love it！

#54 Pre-Famine Timber

#55 Slogged Apples

#56 Ash  Determined to stay put

#57 Best Apple Tart in Headford

#58 Apple Tree of Clonmel

#59 Horizontal Arbutus Unedo

#60 Euonymus Zones

#61 How big they can get

#62 Autumn Maple

#63 The Magic of Moss

#64 Gallipoli and the Sycamore

#65 Liquid Amber 

#66 Hardmount Chestnut

#67 Silver Birch – a gentle lovely ending

#68 Keeping Black Bird Company

#69 Tulip Tree

#70 Itea Iliciafolia

#71 Silver Birch Moonlight

#72 The Shape of it

#73 The Missing Gorilla

#74 The Tree House

#75 Bat Burglars

#76 The Perfect Conker

#77 Ginkgo Biloba and Sweet Gum

#78 Ash The Horse Whisperer

#79 Healers

#80 Fairy Ash

 

 

 

 

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Open Call for your just a minute Tree Story on video 

Memory Palace of Tree Stories is a socio-ecological art practice which invites you to tell a story or share information about trees . It is a creative-led social enquiry of how we can live well for both personal and collective wellbeing. Your story can be any kind of tree story , a personal tree story, an ecological tree story , an environmental tree story, an historical tree story or even a botanical tree story. I do hope you can contribute a comment on how we can live better with the greater community of life.

 

The year 2023 we continue to gather your stories in the form of one minute videos and we are really looking forward to hearing your tree story . I can be contacted directly on this platform or on the contact page on this website. 

Niamh Cunningham