Comments on: Ancient Trees In Richmond Park https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:46:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/#comment-1505474 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:46:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195242#comment-1505474 Spent a lot of my childhood cycling round Richmond Park in the Sixties and loved the deer, the ponds and the big trees.

]]> By: Marnie Sweet https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/#comment-1505462 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:07:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195242#comment-1505462 But only Go d can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

]]> By: David Antscherl https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/#comment-1505456 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:14:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195242#comment-1505456 Today’s photographs of Richmond Park made me smile. I had the privilege of driving through the Park daily from Richmond to Roehampton daily for a year, to and from work. Some mornings the rising mist would reveal the deer in silhouette. Every day the scene would vary.

The Park looks very much the same in your photos as it did back in 1967-68. However, I believe that several of the ancient oaks were brought down during the great storm of October 1987.

]]> By: Lucy neville https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/#comment-1505452 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:15:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195242#comment-1505452 The photographs of these ancient surviving oaks show they were mostly pollarded – the usual method of gathering wood from living trees in a park or wood-pasture or common or on parish boundaries. This management of a much needed resource also seems to prolong the life of a tree. In London you can still find venerable parish boundary trees where other markers of the ancient landscape have completely disappeared.

]]> By: Hetty Startup https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/#comment-1505449 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:02:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195242#comment-1505449 Wonderful photos especially of the young buck (stag) and misty, frosty views of Richmond Park. From a sister tree-hugger. Hetty

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/#comment-1505440 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:00:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195242#comment-1505440 A wonderful story, which I can of course relate to. Because my “own tree” belongs to the same generation of trees — it is an over 500 years old Oak Tree at the Sensenstein near Kassel, and a natural monument. He has lost some larger branches during the last thunderstorms. But that doesn’t bother him. He has survived 500 years of human history!

I’m just planning to visit him again when it gets warmer.

https://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/1954591?sort=new&folder_id=850904

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Annie S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/#comment-1505439 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:11:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195242#comment-1505439 Wonderful trees – if you look carefully, some of them appear to have a face, what they could have witnessed over all the years!

]]> By: Sarah Travers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/#comment-1505433 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:29:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195242#comment-1505433 A lovely post, thank you! A pity it took a while to find the Royal Oak- it is not signposted. In front of Holly Lodge there is another veteran oak, not I think in your photos, which is Sir David Attenborough’s favourite tree- it got a moment of fame in Wild Isles. The very oldest Oaks in Richmond Park are, according to what I have heard, in High Wood on the other side of the Isabella Plantation. Lastly, although not a veteran, there is a famous oak near Bog Gate which was felled by a storm, now has its trunk horizontal to the ground, yet still survives, a living testament to the resilience of these great trees.

]]> By: Andy Strowman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/29/ancient-trees-in-richmond-park-i/#comment-1505429 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:37:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195242#comment-1505429 A great article and yes too, I am an admirer of the great story by Richard Jeffries called “Bevis”.

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