Save The May Tree in your Back Garden...

[thewizeard]

In a place I love so dearly, a local furniture business family, Pullingers, has applied for an application to fell this ancient landmark, at Hayling Island in Hampshire... The MayTree.

Should "we"continue to allow this sort of wanten destruction of our nature; you may also easily say heritage! It's happening all around you, bit by bit. :noes:

http://www.mensap2p.com//Rafi/FreeLans/MayTree.jpg

It's in your back-garden.

*I heard a Robin might not be able to rear his family in it this year, and then if it snows, and there is no Robin to hide his head under his wing, poor thing, then what do we do then?

http://www.hayling.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=4712 :dry:

Let them hear and see what the Lounge Wolves, think !

[thewizeard]

..ermm have to try a different gambit ..but what..ah I know :)


Piss Pole, free, only for Alfa Lounge Wolves..erm.. been used frequently by many passers-by, many of whom were female...

[Proper Bo]

There's no nature disappearing from around me:huh:

[thewizeard]

There's no nature disappearing from around me:huh:

Nature only disappears from around what is natural.

[MagicNakor]

The maytree in my front garden is as enduring as it always was... no theft here.

:shuriken:

[Barbarossa]

I have a hornbeam that I am not allowed to chop down. True Story.

[thewizeard]

The maytree in my front garden is as enduring as it always was... no theft here.

:shuriken:

...As I still have Barbarossa on ignore, and he is likely to remain there the rest of this week, I will answer you MagicNakor! That's because you care, not because it's protected or any other long fisherman's story. I just know it. :)

Of course I have an idea!! We make a contest for the most attractive May Tree in blossom, post it here as an image..

Then regarding all the rest, we just chop em all down and drop them at his address at North Hayling Island, or deliver it straight to the front door of his shop in Elm Grove...or better still, his furniture making wood-shop.! That's how thoughtful we are. We could even rig a webcam up, so all the world can share it's glory..

[MagicNakor]

I'll have to see if it's flowered yet. No real point taking a picture otherwise...that tree has an amazing amount of blossoms. Tourists take pictures of it, which is weird because you can look into the house. :P

And there is a story: it's one of the trees my grandma has decided to protect. She was an avid gardener, and frequently pointed out her favourites with the phrase, "If anyone cuts my <favourite tree> down, I'm coming back to haunt them!" :ghostface

:shuriken:

[thewizeard]

I'll have to see if it's flowered yet. No real point taking a picture otherwise...that tree has an amazing amount of blossoms. Tourists take pictures of it, which is weird because you can look into the house. :P

And there is a story: it's one of the trees my grandma has decided to protect. She was an avid gardener, and frequently pointed out her favourites with the phrase, "If anyone cuts my <favourite tree> down, I'm coming back to haunt them!" :ghostface

:shuriken:

..erm..bless her heart. :)

This might actually be a good idea. Perhaps someone could climb into the tree some moonless night and place a few loudspeakers... connected to my Internet radio station...

[Imagine_If]

Maytrees are interesting trees and are also called Hawthorn.


Maypoles and trees - Trees have been linked to a part of celebration, perhaps, to the days ancient New Year rites. The association of trees to this celebration has come riding on the back of the spring festival in ancient Europe. Trees have always been the symbol of the great vitality and fertility of nature and were often used at the spring festivals of antiquity. The anthropologist E. O. James finds a strong relationship between the ancient tree related traditions of the British and the Romans. According to James' description, as a part of the May Day celebration, the youths in old Europe cut down a tree, lopped off the branches leaving a few at the top. They then wrapped it round with violets like the figure of the Attis, the ancient Roman god. At sunrise, they used to take it back to their villages by blowing horns and flutes. In a similar manner, the sacred pine tree representing the god Attis was carried in procession to the temple of Cybele on Rome's Palatine Hill during the Spring Festival of March 22.


http://www.mensap2p.com//Rafi/FreeLans/maypole.jpg

[thewizeard]

Crataegus (Hawthorn) is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosaceae), native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere) in Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe), Asia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia) and North America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America). The name hawthorn was originally applied to the species native to northern Europe, especially the Common Hawthorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Hawthorn) C. monogyna, and the unmodified name is often so used in Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain) and Ireland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland). However the name is now also applied to the entire genus, and also to the related Asian genus Rhaphiolepis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaphiolepis).

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Common Hawthorn (close up of flowers)


They are shrubs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub) and small trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree) growing to 5-15 m tall, characterized by their small pome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pome) fruit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit) and thorny branches. The bark is smooth grey in young individuals, developing shallow longitudinal fissures with narrow ridges in older trees. The fruits are sometimes known as "haws", from which the name derived. The thorns grow from branches, and are typically 1-3 cm long. The leaves grow spirally arranged on long shoots, and in clusters on spur shoots on the branches or twigs. The leaves themselves have lobed or serrate margins and are somewhat variable shape.
The number of species (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species) in the genus depends on taxonomic interpretation, with numerous apomictic microspecies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apomixis); some botanists recognise a thousand or more species, while others reduce the number to 200 or fewer.
Hawthorns provide food and shelter for many species of birds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird) and mammals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal), and the flowers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower) are important for many nectar-feeding insects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect). Hawthorns are also used as food plants by the larvae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larva) of a large number of Lepidoptera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera) species — see list of Lepidoptera which feed on Hawthorns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lepidoptera_which_feed_on_Hawthorns).
Many species and hybrids are used as ornamental (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornamental_plant) and street trees. The Common Hawthorn is extensively used in Europe as a hedge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_%28barrier%29) plant. Several cultivars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar) of the Midland Hawthorn C. laevigata have been selected for their pink or red flowers. Hawthorns are among the trees most recommended for water-conservation landscapes.


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[maytrees]

I have just signed up to join this forum having noticed that the maytree next door, that is proposed to be felled is featured here. :)

We need your help, despite the two directors of Pullingers Furnishers of Hayling Island being repeatedly denied their planning application, they have submitted another and we could all do with you help. To see the maytree, please go to www.maytrees.co.uk (http://www.maytrees.co.uk)

Thanks everyone.

[Something Else]

What were the furniture people planning to make out of it.

More trees perhaps.

They may even be moving in to the tree business.

[maytrees]

here are some pics of it:


http://www.redoak.co.uk/forum/images/snowmaytrees.jpg




http://www.redoak.co.uk/forum/images/mt/mtblsmall.JPG

http://www.redoak.co.uk/forum/images/mt/mtsmall.JPG

[Something Else]

Amazing. A tree that can use the internets. :O

[Alien5]

benchez can deg it up and plant it in yer garden if you wunt for a small cradit card fee?

[maytrees]

What were the furniture people planning to make out of it.

More trees perhaps.

They may even be moving in to the tree business.

No, they want to chop the tree down, along with a walnut and burn them both :cry:. It is a two plot garden; there is room for two houses but they want three. Three means cutting down protected trees :(.

see www.maytrees.co.uk

[Alien5]

how would burning it save more www.maytrees.co.uk?

[maytrees]

benchez can deg it up and plant it in yer garden if you wunt for a small cradit card fee?

LOL I wish, it is enormous, and very beautiful too.

[Something Else]

:glag: Chop down a walnut. :lol:

[maytrees]

how would burning it save more www.maytrees.co.uk? (http://www.maytrees.co.uk?)

They want to chop it down, burn it and build an extra unnecessary house.

[Alien5]

count me in, i need a new house.

[Something Else]

Chop down AllenS and build me a shed. :smilie4:

[Something Else]

Not necessarily in that order. :eyebrows:

[maytrees]

count me in, i need a new house.
There are plenty of empty ones here; no need for this extra one.

[Something Else]

Trees > Houses. :yes:

[chalice]

Make a treehouse.

Everyone's a winner.

[maytrees]

So how about you guys writing or emailing Havant Borough Council objecting to the the planning application?

[Snee]

Hippies < Rocks.

[Snee]

count me in, i need a new house.
There are plenty of empty ones here; no need for this extra one.

Think of the homeless. Racist.

[Something Else]

So how about you guys writing or emailing Havant Borough Council objecting to the the planning application?

Fuck that and fuck them. I wouldn't write to any council cunts for any reason whatsoever. Think of the wasted paper. :no:

[100%]

Fuck you garden Nazi's.