Comments on: Two days in the lives of two London trees in spring 2011 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/ Gardenvisit.com Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Jerry https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3497 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:38:13 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3497 This year is very very unormal in China. Now, we have to wear the shortest and thinest clothes. What shall we wear in summer which is really a big headache!

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3496 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:00:49 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3496 Another benefit of the tree is seen in ‘tree diplomacy’ such as the apple-tree diplomacy of Britain and Korea. [ http://ukinrok.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=News&id=511062682 ]

Another community based suggestion from California is ‘avocado diplomacy’. [ http://www.noozhawk.com/article/040211_john_schnackenberg_avocado_diplomacy/ ]

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3495 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:09:10 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3495 Christine: great idea for making trees more popular!
Lawrence, not a proverb for sure but:
Rômâre in ungetrûwelîche sluogen / sîn gebaine si ûf ain irmensûl begruoben[10]
“The Romans slew him treacherously / and buried his bones on an Irminsul”
The Irminsul is taken to be the World Tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irminsul and is also thought of as a holy or sacred German tree.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3494 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:39:53 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3494 Lawrence, perhaps the Chinese citizens of Nanjing would have done well to broadcast the Beach Boys song along with wearing their green ribbons?

Tom, ‘The money tree’ is most likely a metaphor for ‘The tree’. [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsN8FUV9nS4 ]

Yuan, perhaps people should give trees as a gift? See [ http://x0e.xanga.com/2ecf920131c33273172826/m217831255.jpg ] and [ http://hubpages.com/hub/Plant-Fast-Growing-Flowering-Trees ].

]]> By: Lawrence https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3493 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:15:06 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3493 As to the regard in which trees are held in China, recent news articles show that the removal of trees – even for important infrastructure projects – creates increasing unrest among the general population [ http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=467714&type=Opinion ]

]]> By: Lawrence https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3492 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:16:18 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3492 But here is a good German one:
“A man without a wife is like a tree without leaves and twigs”

]]> By: Lawrence https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3491 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:07:30 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3491 I would have expected the Germans to have more to offer, but could only find
“Old trees shouldn’t be moved”
I particularly liked this Japanese version of the Dutch proverb:
“The higher the tree, the more jealous the wind”
And the somewhat tragic Rhodesian:
“A fallen leaf never returns to the tree”

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3490 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:33:36 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3490 I have found some more good tree proverbs, and did not know the Chinese held trees in such high regard;
Forests precede civilisations and deserts follow them ( Chateaubriand)
High trees catch a lot of wind (Dutch proverb)
No shade tree? Blame not the sun, but yourself ( Chinese proverb)
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come ( Chinese proverb)
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong ( Winston Churchill)
One generation plants the trees under which another takes its ease (Chinese Proverb)
The tree that stands above the others gets blown down (Chinese proverb)

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3489 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:20:15 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3489 Speaking as a pedant to a fellow-sufferer, you are partly right and partly wrong. See new photos, above.

]]> By: Lawrence https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/two-days-in-the-lives-of-two-london-trees-in-spring-2011/#comment-3488 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:11:05 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6789#comment-3488 In the interests of pedantry someone should point out that the tree in question will not get its leaves for a little while longer yet – aren’t these the early flowers of Acer platanoides?

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