#105 The Highest Climber

#1 Teardrops After a Storm                reflections on a Willow after the pandemic

#2 Pomegranate Tree                           in balance with life and nature

#3 Trees are like Humans                 shared characteristics between humans and trees

#4 Old Ash–A Real Survivor            resilience of an old ash  in the Cork countryside

#5 Tree Rings of Life                            parallel  growth and development of people and trees

#6 A Very Weird Elf                           roots and what grows beneath

#7 Old Crabapple of Wenhua Dian   ancient crabapple orchard in the Forbidden City

#8 Standing Fast                                ‘ … weight is cherished when we care’   a poem on steadfastness

#9 Feeling Good – Tree Song             a song of joy and spontaneity in Daizu language

#10 Forest Breath – Tree Story        ‘….400 million years of forest breath’

#11 Protective Peach – Tree Story   …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 dim burn glistens from the frosted skin’  a poem on winter fruit

#14 Ancient Yew Trees  the traces of a church moved brick by brick across the river 100 years ago

#15 Once I Counted Birds              on one of the Cook islands where no people live

#16 Family Oak                                  the passing of saplings through friends and family

#17 When the Trees Say Everything    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 link 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

#23 Ethan’s Tree                              a heartbreaking story about a tree in Carlow’s town park

#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 Always Trying To Hold Each Other Up   ‘… a gentle breeze comes and they get excited’

#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                        growing up in the countryside  a story with a shocking ending

#32 Millennium Monkey Puzzle    a story connecting family and time

#33 Monterey Cyprus                            ‘….  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 the Rest    Californian Redwood, the giant, the king of trees

#37 An Dair Sean                                   Old Oak – ultimate wisdom

#38 Trees for the Forest     a reflection on centuries of fossil fuel use and a strive for regeneration

#39 The year 1710               counting the rings on an old oak stump with forester  Michael Sommers

#40  I Feel at Peace                  a collaborative response to trees, from 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 St Anne’s Oak                  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 Hawthorne , 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 1                         ‘ …throw out your yoga mats and settle yourself into the ground

#50 Forest Bathing 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                        ‘…..It was like confetti. It was just such a remarkable sight to see.’

#53 Oak We absolutely love it！        ‘…Children love playing on it  and they have a swing 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      two sisters share a memory of an Ash in Ennis County Clare

#57 Best Apple Tart in Headford      ‘…four girls would stand under and shake it’

#58 Apple Tree of Clonmel              …..a little plantation of apple trees in memory of people

#59 Horizontal Arbutus Unedo        ‘… when they are actually on the ground lying beside you ‘

#60 Euonymus Zones             ‘….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 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 gentle and lovely ending ‘……it just gently fell, like a kind of a yawn’

#68 Keeping Black Bird 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 ‘

#70 Itea Iliciafolia                           ‘……So every year it reminds me …’

#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

#73 The Missing Gorilla                  mistaken identity,  one of the rare few funny tree stories !

#74 The Tree House                               ‘…. we spent many years down by the river ‘

#75 Bat Burglars                recall how their trees introduced birds and bats to the garden

#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

# 85 Flaky Bark Birch                    the unexpected sight of red flaky bark flickering in the wind

# 86 Devine Tree of SanXingduia lyrical response to largest archaeological bronze treesculpture

# 87 Pagoda Tree                         a former residence of a French poet at a taoist temple in the 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                     childhood memories

#93 Ginkgo of Baihuatan          Chengdu Ginkgos

#94 Trees of Fuhu Temple        the special wood of nanmu

#95 Magnolia Tree                     being stopped in your tracks by an unexpected sight

#96 A Place called Fairy Tree        A magical tree that can no longer be found

#97 A Tree Transplanted               finding the same tree everywhere

#98 Different Branches                 solitary explorations in the park

#99 The Trees are Whispering     Contemplating woodland communications

#100 Euonymus acquifolium      Plant Hunter