This lovely video, narrated by Michael York, features trees of the fine public gardens and parks in Paris, two grand individual specimens sheltered in the valley of the River Test in England, and a poem The Heart of the Tree, by Henry Cuyler Bunner.
The Heart of the Tree
What does he plant who...
Apr
24
Swedish forests grow by a total of 110 million cubic metres a year, and the net reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a result of Swedish forestry and wood production, is 60 million metric tons a year.
This is equivalent to the entire carbon dioxide emissions for the whole of the...
Feb
23
A thousand years ago most of Europe was covered by original forest like the Bialowieza National Park in Poland. Now this forest is reduced to only 1200 km2 (463 m2) and is likely to disappear because of climate change.
Park Warden Mateusz Szymura says, “Only here you can see an eco system,...
Feb
16
Wild Urban Forest of Rheinelbe, Germany
In 1988, the government of Nordrhein Westfallen started the process of converting an old mining area into wild urban forest.
“The idea behind it was not to develop anything…and not to plan and manage anything…Just to let everything grow like it...
Feb
07
What Dreams Are Made Of
By Cynthia Gibson
The Annandale Garden at the Shimla Hill Station: Photo © Rohit Chhiber
Once you have cleared your mind of images of over population and dusty roads, what is peeled back is the countries’ fragrant and majestic landscape that can only be India. The...
Dec
09
When a teenager, at that time when you think of what you want to spend the remainder of your life doing, I chose to garden. Whether as a result of the exposure to nature and plants that I had been given from the older generations, or by the fact that during my ‘mentally tortuous’ adolescent...
Sep
14
Monarch Butterfly. Photo Courtesy of The Chicago Botanic Garden.
For over ten years now on a daily basis I have come to one of the most beautiful places in the world, The Chicago Botanic Garden. I am the Executive Director of the U.S. office of Botanic Gardens Conservation International, hosted by...
Sep
08
Photo Credit: All photos by and copyright Gerald Wykes.
Bluebirds Shining on Me
Me thinks it was Henry David Thoreau who once said that the Bluebird “carries the sky on its back.” That is indeed an apt physical description of this intensely blue-backed bird which has come to...
Sep
08
