A circle in a spiral, a tree within a tree...

[spandit]

I call this sambucus leylandii

 

[British Red]

I like that - I have an elder growing in a dead pear

 

[Harvestman]

I recently found a cluster of creeping buttercup in a hollow on a pear tree. Nice shot Spandit.

 

[spandit]

I wonder how big it will get?

 

[spandit]

I recently found a cluster of creeping buttercup in a hollow on a pear tree. Nice shot Spandit.

It wasn't moving very fast...

Our paddock is covered in creeping buttercup but it's really pretty and apparently once dried in hay, perfectly edible for animals

 

[Joonsy]

good one, its always interesting how trees grow in all their forms, i know of a willow that has an alder growing out of it halfway up its trunk, sometimes you see trees that are divided close to the base and i have often wondered if these grow from one seed or two, 'double trees' as they are sometimes called, some are spectacular how their seperate branches rubbing together fuse together into one branch.

 

[Harvestman]

It wasn't moving very fast...

I'm going to steal that line!

 

[crosslandkelly]

I'm sorry, I couldn't help thinking of this.


[video=youtube;WEhS9Y9HYjU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU[/video]

 

[spandit]

That was what I was referencing!

My favourite double tree is near my father's house in Cheltenham, there's a beech and an oak embracing and they've obviously been there for some time

 

[Joonsy]

That was what I was referencing!

My favourite double tree is near my father's house in Cheltenham, there's a beech and an oak embracing and they've obviously been there for some time

thats a cracker, thanks for photo there is an old lane not far from me that has some double-tree history, perhaps a bit of a romantic myth but here it is anyway http://www.wbrc.org.uk/WORCRECD/Issue 25/an_old_gypsy_tale_or_the_possibl.htm

 

[spandit]

Thank goodness for Google Streetview (although I thought this was a private road!)