#24 Holding Trunk of Time

# 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  (AGB -An Gairdín Beo April workshops 2023)

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

#17 When the Trees Say Everything    finding your identity and way of life                               (AGB)

#18 Strawberry Tree                         Strawberry tree in ‘the Gairdin Beo’ community garden     (AGB)

#19 Mother Oak and Baby Oak    a link to Cnoc an Doirin                                                           (AGB)

#20 My Leylandii                              a seemingly bland tree  linking past and present                   (AGB)

#21 Chestnut Repotted                a volunteer working at ‘the Gairdin Beo’ community garden  (AGB)

#22 Native Birch                               transplanting  Irish Birch                                                             (AGB)

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

#24 Holding Trunk of Time        a haiku on the trunk of time                                                      (AGB)

#25 Our Mother’s Legacy                a memory of teaching her children the latin names of plants   (AGB)

#26 It Blossomed                                    ‘… the power to change my mood’                                        (AGB)

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

#28 Wollemi Pine                                      ‘…I am one of the oldest and rarest trees’                        (AGB)

#29 Barrow Willow                                  ‘…holding the river bank together’                                     (AGB)

#30 For What We Might Become       ‘ ..roots clutching soil ripe with a lifeforce’                         (AGB)

#31 Sheltering Beech                        growing up in the countryside  a story with a shocking ending   (AGB)

#32 Millennium Monkey Puzzle    a story connecting family and time                                          (AGB)

#33 Monterey Cyprus                            ‘….  the amazing woody wonder’                                          (AGB)

#34 Struggle On, Struggle On        ‘.. blossoms brightly before being swallowed by its white cousin’   (AGB)

#35 Like A Chestnut       imagining the journey of a chestnut in 1500’s while sitting under its tree   (AGB)

#36 Head and Shoulders Above the Rest    Californian Redwood, the giant, the king of trees     (AGB)

#37 An Dair Sean                                   Old Oak – ultimate wisdom                                                     (AGB)

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

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

#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          (XTBG XishuangbannaTropical Botanical Gardens)

#43 Bamboo – Flutter           a special bamboo used for cooking rice , it also has a unique flutter  (XTBG)

#44 St Anne’s Oak                  childhood memory of being with her brothers  and hiding from bullies (CGF – Carlow Garden Festival August 2023)

#45 Angie’s Umbrella Tree    A weeping Elm holding twisted branches called the ‘granny’s chair’  (CGF)

#46  Berna’s Umbrella Tree                     a memory of  outsmarting grandmother                               (CGF)

#47 Hawthorne , it gives and it gives…a fairy tree, a boundary tree , the blossoms smell divine      ( CGF)

#48 Apple Tree Swing                         memories of a beautiful summers day                                        (CGF)

#49 Forest Bathing 1                         ‘ …throw out your yoga mats and settle yourself into the ground  (CGF)

#50 Forest Bathing 2                   ‘ …. you start to notice all the animals , the owls and the red squirrels (CGF)

#51  Mulberry                                      when swiss watches were almost made in Waterford                (CGF)

#52 Prunus Kanzan                        ‘…..It was like confetti. It was just such a remarkable sight to see.’  (CGF)

#53 Oak We absolutely love it！        ‘…Children love playing on it  and they have a swing on it’  (CGF)

#54 Pre-Famine Timber                   ‘….two and a half miles of river Slaney ’                                     (CGF)

#55 Slogged Apples                         ‘….We used to build huts up there on the tree’                          (CGF)

#56 Ash  Determined to stay put      two sisters share a memory of an Ash in Ennis County Clare  (CGF)

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

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

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

#60 Euonymus Zones             ‘….when April came she opened with a simple dress of sapling green’    (CGF)

#61 How big they can get                   ‘…to see them growing up over the years’                             (CGF)

#62 Autumn Maple                              a family tradition of Sunday walks in the park                     (CGF)

#63 The Magic of Moss                      the impact of a moss covered tree on a non verbal young boy  (CGF)

#64 Gallipoli and the Sycamore  planted in the early 1900’s by  Anthony Wheatley                  (CGF)

#65 Liquid Amber ‘…..full leaf colour , red orange yellow absolutely aflame ‘                                (CGF)

#66 Hardymount Chestnut ‘….when half of it fell down it kept us warm for about a year’           (CGF)

#67 Silver Birch – a gentle and lovely ending ‘……it just gently fell, like a kind of a yawn’            (CGF)

#68 Keeping Black Bird Company  ‘… for  years it appeared that the same blackbird came back(CGF)

#69 Tulip Tree                                    ‘….. It was said that after about 15 years it would bloom ‘     (CGF)

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

#71 Silver Birch Moonlight  ‘…. the full moon was right smack in the middle of the three of them’  (CGF)

#72 The Shape of it                                    how to recognize Silver Birch and Oak                             (CGF)

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

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

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

#76 The Perfect Conker        a boyhood quest to find the best one                                                  (CGF)

#77 Ginkgo Biloba and Sweet Gum      Rachel Doyle tells of her favourite trees                         (CGF)

#78 Ash The Horse Whisperer        training horses under a huge Ash tree                                   (CGF)

#79 Healers                                         A story of healing and a love of trees                                     (CGF)

#80 Fairy Ash                                     an old ash  with burly roots holding little pools of water     (CGF)

#81 Under the Oak                         memories of growing  up on a farm surrounded by trees       (CGF)

#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    (CECS Chengdu Europe Culture Season -May 2024)

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

#87 Pagoda Tree                         a former residence of a French poet at a taoist temple in the woods (RUC-CW Mount West series)

#88 Encounter                                     Reflections in Dr Bussières garden                                    (RUC-CW Mount West series)

#89 Maples of a Hundred Years     two special maple trees in Xishan                                      (RUC-CW Mount West series)

#90 French Chestnut                  …time has condensed into a deep point in me’                         (RUC-CW Mount West series)

#91 The Greatest Blessing           caretaking for plants and animals is a blessing      (A4 artist residency Chengdu Sept-Oct 2024)

#92 Little Red Basin                     childhood memories                                                      (A4 artist residency)

#93 Ginkgo of Baihuatan           Chengdu Ginkgos                                                           (A4 artist residency )

#94 Trees of Fuhu Temple        the special wood of nanmu                                           (A4 artist residency)

#95 Magnolia Tree                     being stopped in your tracks by an unexpected sight (A4 artist residency)

#96 A Place called Fairy Tree        A magical tree that can no longer be found          (A4 artist residency)

#97 A Tree Transplanted               finding the same tree everywhere                            (A4 artist residency)

#98 Different Branches                 solitary explorations in the park                               (A4 artist residency)

#99 The Trees are Whispering    Contemplating woodland communications            (A4 artist residency)

#100 Euonymus acquifolium     Plant Hunter                                                                    (A4 artist residency)

#101 Tree Dance Austria        A choreographer spends a week with a tree                  (A4 artist residency)

#102 Tree Shadows    …  interplays with light as it swings in the breeze                       (A4 artist residency)

#103 Two Trees        interdependent attachment， love  and growth                             (A4 artist residency)

#104 Children’s Games       The games that we play                                                         (A4 artist residency)

#105 The Highest Climber     A point marked by chalk from the class room                (A4 artist residency)

#106 Tenacity         A careless moment turns to courage and resilience                       (A4 artist residency)

#107 Osmanthus Tree      fragrant tree taken down                                                         (A4 artist residency)

#108 Blue Eucalyptus   the persuit of Art and Nature                                                     (A4 artist residency)

#109 Home  a micro perspective         An ecosystem that feels like home                (A4 artist residency)

#110 Grandma’s Walnut and Mulberry      The passing of time                                    (A4 artist residency)

#111 Under the Shade of a Tree       A semi open space                                                 (A4 artist residency)

#112 Rowan – Mountain Ash      berries and mistlethrush