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Dan Ridley-Ellis

@flyingquercus.bsky.social

Professional woodwhisperer and some sort of academic.

Dan Ridley-Ellis @flyingquercus.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Remember it's the time of year to put containers of water outside for the physics fairy. I nearly missed my bus this morning documenting this perfect ice spike.

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Dan Ridley-Ellis @flyingquercus.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

I found it used in several other publications of a similar age, including the Atlantic Almanac of 1873 pretty much as people use it now so I think it was likely in common usage before Mongredien wrote it down... I adjusted my search... Hugh Macdonald writing in 1857 "Days at the coast..."

Rowan trees, for all so pretty and lady-like as they look, with their rich red beads, are great destructives of stone walls, when the roots are once introduced into the interstices. We have known a set of these mischievous mountain ashes positively knocking down a dyke; we have seen a single specimen rending an ancient turret in twain; and those who would learn the mode in which the mischief is done, have only to visit the old kirk of Kilbride at present, and see how effectively the customer who has taken up his seat there is doing his work. Let the right tree by all means be put in its right place.

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Dan Ridley-Ellis @flyingquercus.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

How about "Trees & Shrubs for English Plantations: A Selection and Description of the Most Ornamental Trees" by Augustus Mongredien, 1870

Nature has fitted certain plants for thriving under peculiar conditions, and, on the other hand, has left but few spots on earth unfitted for at least some kind of vegetation. It is for man, studying the intents and purposes of nature, to discover the art of placing the right tree in the right place.

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