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The English Oak Project

@thekentacorn.bsky.social
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Our Oak Trees & their Sweet Chestnut chums in our ancient bluebell woodland in the Weald of Kent. Also pictures and facts about trees twitter.com/TheKentAcorn

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10h
Fibonacci in Nature. Fibonacci in Breakfast
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Wabi-sabi (侘寂) The Japanese concept of appreciating both natural objects and the forces of nature. That imperfections in nature, as all things of the natural world are impermanent, and thus beautiful
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An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #114
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14h
You have to get up early to catch the dirty stop out oak trees still at the river for their drinking sessions 🙄
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10h
Fibonacci in Nature. Fibonacci in Breakfast
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10h
Wabi-sabi (侘寂) The Japanese concept of appreciating both natural objects and the forces of nature. That imperfections in nature, as all things of the natural world are impermanent, and thus beautiful
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10h
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #114
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14h
You have to get up early to catch the dirty stop out oak trees still at the river for their drinking sessions 🙄
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #113
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Deadwood is not dead
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We placed a trailcam at the meeting place of 3 animal tracks in our woodland The choice was obvious. Evidence of deer, badger & rabbits using the tracks What did we get? Over 1,000 photos of the same two squirrels. Sometimes foraging, but almost all just arsing around 🙄
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Welcome to our Crib 🙂
Our woodland
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #112
A sea of bluebells
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you get up really early there is a good chance to catch a tree returning from a night out way after their daylight curfew starts 🤨🌳
Tree in the middle of the road
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. Byron
An English Bluebell
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🙄
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #111
An English Bluebell
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ancient Woodland The daytime is full of birdsong, dappled sunlight, & the odd glimpse of wildlife Then night. No light, wind, sound. Literally nothing to give you away Then a Tawny Owl calls out to the empty world. Your senses are electric, your belonging total
Our woodland at night
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver
Morning sun and the silhouette of our trees
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #110
An English Bluebell
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Grow your own oak tree #16 Cracks are appearing around the remains of the style. On an acorn this is the tiny, hardened pointy tip or nub at the opposite end from the cup This is pressure from the taproot trying to exit 🤗
An acorn in diagram
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s a known fact oak trees can take selfies
Oak with branches positioned so it looks like it is taking a selfie
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My father had fire in his eyes, and watching the flame extinguished as I held him will hurt until my last breath. Ten years later I can still feel his hand Everything I do is because of his guidance. He is with me now in our woodland
One of our oaks
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #109
A sea of bluebells
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We have had new carpet installed. I am sure you will agree, it is most fetching Note the bluebell stalks. This is hallowed ground, that human feet hardly ever touch. Doing what it does season after season, and for thousands of years
Our woodland floor
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
River mist is the ghosts of our ancestors finding their Elysium
River mist
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grow your own oak tree #15 THE ACORNS ARE WAKING UP!
Open eyes in the darkness
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #108
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kit cleaning 😕
Dirty chainsaw kit
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A few have called out my overt nationalism on this account. My explicit expression of national superiority, prioritising my ethnic group above all others & referencing the Englishness of the oak tree I am Welsh Love where you live, & honour your ancestors
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nature’s Gold, England’s Glory
Massive English oak
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Deadwood is not dead Or the squirrels have started wearing Sombreros
Fungi on deadwood
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #107 We have about 500,000 bluebells, so only got 499,893 to go, so finished by the year 2437 Wait, hold on 🤨
An English Bluebell
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sweet Chestnut coppice, a traditional method to regularly harvest fencing material in the High Weald Cut to ground level (coppiced) the tree grows back with multiple stems, cut back every 20 years This is one tree with a traditional coke bottle for scale. IT IS MASSIVE
Sweet Chestnut and coke bottle
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #106
An English Bluebell
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Legend has it old oak ship timbers reside in buildings. Almost always not true, unless you live near a dockyard Pointless mortices & joints cut in timber point to an older local building supplying the wood Oaks weight made transport difficult in a era of horse & cart
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I need to lower the trailcam 🙄
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Medway scene
River and oak
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #105
An English Bluebell
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every other living thing including deer, badgers, rabbits, humans & velociraptors use our paths, but because foxes are the mammal equivalent of 00 Agents they walk ON the logs to not leave paw prints
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nature is not a place to visit. It is our home
Winnie the Pooh & Christopher Robin inspect a hollow oak
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Grow your own oak tree #14 The acorns have been in the fridge for 15 days, but no sign of taproots yet. There are about 500 oak species due to evolution. Each has characteristics to manage life in the region they are found They have a dormancy period of between 3 & 12 weeks
Zzzzzzzzzzz’s
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #104
An English Bluebell
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Locals warned of a man with a large dog fronting up to anyone who politely point out these are private woods with a delicate ecosystem Dressed in just a pair of shorts & multiple bramble cuts, with a poker face death stare, holding these babies gets a different response 🤭
Woodland tools
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Grow your own oak tree #13 Not sure you can buy an acorn vase for the largest acorns in the world, Quercus Insignis 😳
Acorn taking up a whole human hand
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My uncle broke ranks with my Methodist family & told me the Glyderau mountains of Dyffryn Ogwen are home to Gods, & Angels live in the rivers & trees on the valley floor As a child I listened in awe to his stories of a life with Nature, & still have no reason to not believe him
Tryfan
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #103
An English Bluebell
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Where no immediate threats exist, and/or the humans are known to not threaten, badgers will leave their underground dens to stretch, scratch, & sun themselves. They also drag old bedding material out & replace with new leaves & grass Being ignored by a badger is the best thing
Badger close up
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The US State with the most oak tree species is……… TEXAS, with at least FORTY EIGHT This is the Live Oak at the Alamo, San Antonio 🤠🌳
Massive oak tree
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #102
An English Bluebell
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