Tree Story Videos

#1 Teardrops After a Storm 

reflections on a willow tree near a  canal in Shunyi after the pandemic

#2 Pomegranate Tree

in balance with life and nature

#3 Trees are like Humans

some shared characteristics between humans and trees

#4 Old Ash – A Real Survivor

on the resilience of a beautiful  old ash  in the Cork countryside

#5 Tree Rings of Life

a unique view on growth and development of people and trees

#6 A Very Weird Elf

roots and what grows beneath

#7 Ancient Crabapple

 ancient crabapple orchard in Wenhua Dian in the Forbidden City

#8 Standing Fast

A poem on steadfastness ..’weight is cherished when we care’

#9 Feeling Good – Tree Song

a song of joy and spontaneity in Daizu language

#10 Forest Breath

 ‘What is Air？…Air is 400 million years of forest breath’

#11 Protective Peach

  …peach wood placed under a child’s pillow

#12 Bee Tree Sycamore

 can produce the same pollen of a half an acre of  wild flowers

#13 Winter Apples

A poem on winter fruit ‘…A dim burn glistens from the frosted skin’

#14 Ancient Yew Trees

the traces of a church moved brick by brick across the river 100yrs ago

#15 Once I Counted Birds

 on one of the Cook islands uninhabited by humans

#16 Family Oak

 the passing of saplings through friends and family

#17 When the Trees Say Everything

 on finding your identity and way of life

#18 Strawberry Tree

Strawberry tree in ‘the Gairdin Beo’ community garden

#19 Mother Oak and Baby Oak

a connection to Cnoc an Doirin

#20 My Leylandii

a seemingly bland tree  linking past and present

#21 Chestnut Repotted

 a volunteer working at ‘the Gairdin Beo’ community garden

#22 Native Birch

  transplanting  Irish Birch

#24 Holding Trunk of Time

  a haiku on the trunk of time

#25 Our Mother’s Legacy

 a memory of teaching  her children the latin names of plants

#26 It Blossomed

      ‘… the power to change my mood’

#27  Holding Each Other Up

our first story by a nonagenarian

#28 Wollemi Pine

     ‘…I am one of the oldest and rarest trees’

#29 Barrow Willow

       ‘…holding the river bank together’

#30 For What We Might Become

  ‘ ..roots clutching soil ripe with a lifeforce’

#31 Sheltering Beech

 a story with a shocking ending

#32 Millennium Monkey Puzzle

 a story connecting family and time

#33 Monterey Cypress

 ‘….  the amazing woody wonder’

#34 Struggle On, Struggle On

  ‘.. blossoms brightly before being swallowed by its white cousin’

#35 Like A Chestnut

 imagining the journey of a chestnut in 1500’s while sitting under its tree

#36 Head and Shoulders Above

Californian Redwood, the giant, the king of trees

#37 An Sean Dair

 Old Oak – ultimate wisdom

#38 Trees for the Forest 

a strive for regeneration after centuries of fossil fuel use

#39 1710 

  counting the rings on an old oak stump with a forester

#40 I Feel at Peace 

  a collaborative response to trees, from the Delta Centre Hanover

#41 Chongqing Cedar

 the trees of Zhaomushan Park can pull the heart strings homeward

#42 Fire Vine Bauhinia

  Hani and the Dai cultures view this plant very differently

#43 Bamboo- Flutter

 a special bamboo used for cooking rice , it also has a unique flutter

#44 Oak of St Anne’s

 childhood memory of being with her brothers  and hiding from bullies

#45 Angie’s Umbrella Tree 

 A weeping Elm holding twisted branches called the ‘granny’s chair’

#46 Berna’s Umbrella Tree

 a memory of  outsmarting grandmother

#47 Hawthorn, it gives and it gives 

a fairy tree, a boundary tree , the blossoms smell divine

#48 Apple Tree Swing 

memories of a beautiful summers day

#49 Forest Bathing part 1 

   ‘ …throw out your yoga mats and settle yourself into the ground’

#50 Forest Bathing part 2 

  ‘ …. you start to notice all the animals , the owls and the red squirrels’

#51 Mulberry 

when Swiss watches were almost made in Waterford

#52 Prunus Kanzan

double flowered Cherry Blossom

#53 Oak – We absolutely Love it

 ‘…Children love playing on it …’

#54 Pre-Famine Timber

      ‘….two and a half miles of river Slaney ’

#55 Slogged Apples 

 ‘….We used to build huts up there on the tree’

#56 Ash – Determined to Stay Put 

 sisters share a memory of an Ash in Ennis County Clare

#57 The Best Apple Tart in Headford

memories of family  living next to an orchard ‘..four girls would stand under and shake it’

#58 Apple Tree of Clonmel

a little plantation of apple trees in memory of people from the area

#59 Horizontal Arbutus Unedo

‘…when they are actually on the ground lying beside you so they are fantastic.’

#60 Euonymus Zones

 A poem  ‘….when April came she opened with a simple dress of sapling green’

#61 How Big They Can Get 

‘…to see them growing up over the years’

#62 Autumn Maple

 a family tradition of Sunday walks in the park

#63 The Magic of Moss

  the impact of a moss covered tree on a non verbal young boy

#64 Gallipoli and the Sycamore

planted on the family farm in the early 1900’s by  Anthony Wheatley

#65 Liquid Amber

‘…..full leaf colour , red orange yellow absolutely aflame’

#66 Hardymount Chestnut

 ‘….when half of it fell down it kept us warm for about a year’

#67 Silver Birch – a lovely ending 

‘……it just gently fell, like a kind of a yawn’

#68 Keeping Blackbird Company 

 ‘… for  years it appeared that the same blackbird came back’

#69 Tulip Tree

     ‘….. It was said that after about 15 years it would bloom for the first time ‘

#70 Itea Ilicifolia

  ‘……So every year it reminds me of my sister  …’

#71  Silver Birch Moonlight 

‘…. the full moon was right smack in the middle of the three of them’

#72  The Shape of It 

 how to recognize Silver Birch and Oak from a distance

#73 The Missing Gorilla

   a case of mistaken identity,  one of the few funny tree stories

#74 Tree House

 ‘…. we spent many years down by the river’

#75 Bat Burglars 

recalling how their trees introduced birds and bats to the garden and house

#76 The Perfect Conker

a boyhood quest to find the best one

#77 Ginkgo Biloba and Sweet Gum

Rachel Doyle tells of her favourite trees

#78 Ash  – The Horse Whisperer

 training horses under a huge Ash tree

#79 Healers 

A story of healing and a love of trees

#80 Fairy Ash 

  an old ash  with burly roots holding little pools of water

#81 Under the Oak

memories of growing  up on a farm surrounded by trees

#82 Date Palm

The life line of the Arabian Dessert for thousands of years

#83 Willow  – Branching Out 

preventing the felling of a tree on the grounds of an embassy

#84 Tree Bee Hive 

  creating natural habitats for honey bees from dead and discarded trees

#85 Flickering Flame Bark Birch

the unexpected sight of red flaky bark flickering in the wind

#86 Devine Tree of Sanxingdui

 lyrical response to largest archaeological bronze treesculpture

#87 Pagoda Tree

      a former residence of a French poet at a taoist temple in the Xishan woods

#88 Encounter

 Reflections in Dr Bussières garden

#89  Maples of a Hundred Years 

two special maple trees in Xishan

#90 French Chestnut

 ‘….time has condensed into a deep point in me’

#91 The Greatest Blessing

 caretaking for plants and animals is a blessing

#92 Little Red Basin Under the Trees

 memories of washing socks as a young child under two big trees