Trees and their uses

[SOAR]

Well I'm up for it Red looks like I will be off work for a while torn a cartlidge in my knee so I'm house bound at the mo.

 

[wolf man]

Falling Rain & Bushcraftbob,

i live just outside Oxford, and would love to come along if you have the time and space. Could you let me now when please.
Also have access to a local wood to me, it's open to the public, but only the very local people know of it and use it.

WM

 

[h2o]

my knowledge of trees is rubbish being a lancashire lad im mainly confined to coniferous plantations.

 

[SimonM]

Well I'm up for it Red looks like I will be off work for a while torn a cartlidge in my knee so I'm house bound at the mo.

SNAP! :sadwavey: You have my sympathy - I am hoping that I will be fit for the Middlewood Meet at the end of the month.

Simon

 

[falling rain]

Falling Rain & Bushcraftbob,

i live just outside Oxford, and would love to come along if you have the time and space. Could you let me now when please.
Also have access to a local wood to me, it's open to the public, but only the very local people know of it and use it.

WM

Of course you'd be welcome Wolf man. The more the merrier.

 

[ganstey]

If its of any interest I started a bit of a challenge on another forum where I would publish photographs of leaf, bark, whole tree and fruits / flowers where appropriate and challenge people to identify them. Once it had been identified I would list its name and uses. Happy to reproduce a few over here if its of interest?

Red

Ooh, yes please Red.

G

 

[British Red]

First three are up ganstey - when those three are correctly guessed I'll do some more (there seems to be a real strugle on #2 right now )

Red

 

[ganstey]

Cheers Red. The first two have me completely stumped, and I guessed the third was Ash, but will wait for the confirmation/correction. Will bring in some books tomorrow to have another go at the first two.

G

 

[Toadflax]

Of course you'd be welcome Wolf man. The more the merrier.

Just spotted this thread. Would be good to meet up with some of the Oxfordshire lot. Bagley Woods are good (though being University owned there is restriction on what you can do but they are mixed woodland so there are lots of different tree types - found two massive outcrops of honey fungus there a couple of weeks ago). Also lots of deer, so they are good if you want to look at tracking.

A good public access wood is Radley Large Wood - again has some deer. I'm not sure whether or not this is a nature reserve, but there's certainly lots of evidence of, shall we say, human activity (coppicing and other evidence of woodland management, and of course some litter) but when I've been there recently I haven't seen many people.

The other good locations are the nature reserves in Dry Sandford - there's some wetland, nature reserve woodland, and open access woodland. Spotted someone coppicing there the other day for hazel wands.


Geoff

 

[Toadflax]

I sometimes go for a mooch around Wytham although trouble with that is you have to stick to the rides and cant actually get in to the thick of the woods :-(

Also visited Youlbury a couple of times.

One of my colleagues worked at the field station in Wytham and knows the head woodsman well. I'll make some enquiries. But, as I said in a previous post, Bagley is much less controlled about where you can wander.

I've got a contact in the local beavers so I could make some enquiries about what can be done at Youlbury as a non-scout.



Geoff

 

[Toadflax]

Maybe this should move across to the Oxford Meetups Thread. I've bumped that thread up.


Geoff