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the conker nut tree

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do you know why conker trees are called horse chestnuts ?


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wel, it’s apparently to do with the little horse shoe patterns that appear on the branches

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i never knew that.  click on the pictures above for a closer look

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and did you also know that loads of british conker trees are croaking it due to some miserable moths ?  that’s not a myth.

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that’s all very learny isn’t it ? 

some trees

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england is so green at the moment.  it’s great.

low trees

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trees generally grow out of the ground, so the concept of low trees shouldn’t be such a rare thing

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trees

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look at this gnarly gnarler

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tree

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trunk

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the secret door

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you may need to click this picture to look at the big version.  this lady has found a secret passage

better than the actual tree

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these trees are outside buckingham palace.  they seem to have replaced the bark with a wooden fence.  nice idea.  real trees don’t look wooden enough.

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reading university

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this was the view esther and i saw when we turned round after finding a geocache.  quite nice actually.

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