A dear friend, Noelle is starting a weekly meme called Tree Appreciation Tuesday, she has this blog http://noellemace.blogspot.com/2023/10/tree-appreciation-tuesday-participant.html?m=1So I thought I would play along. Anybody that knows me already knows my love of trees and those that know me really well know I love the mighty Oak best of all having been raised in Oaks Road and having an Oak tree at the bottom of the garden I’ve literally loved them all my life, from the abundance of acorns in the autumn that go red inside when they’ve had a sharp frost to their acid green leaves in the spring. An Oak tree can bring so much wildlife into a garden with birds and bees, bats and moths and such delight from watching squirrels race around their mighty trunk to owls hooting in the dead of a winters night.

This is a mighty Oak at Stoneleigh Abbey, said to be Shakespeare’s Oak. It’s over a thousand years old. How lucky are we to see and touch it. Photograph taken in 2016 shortly after a preservation order was placed on the tree. Although why it took that long to think it was a special tree one can only imagine. May it continue to inspire poetry and lovers for many a long year.