Chestnut trees, I look back fondly on climbing their trunks to fight squirrels for prized conkers. They're currently under severe threat in the UK due to some terrible blight wreaking damage on their populations, with any luck the ones in my area will survive.
Oak trees are obligatory, strong trees with massive cultural significance and they're iconic as fuck. Say tree, most will think of oak tree.
If I kept posting which fruit trees I appreciate I'd end up posting them all, so I'm going to keep it specific to one. Jack trees are an amusement to me, owing largely to my childhood experiences of
that tree being the one where if you stole all the cloth coverings that tree would be the one that would summon a bat swarm in the night.
Willows have always been special to me too. I've been rather ignorant of the negative connotations it has in England, what with it being associated with death, decay and 2spooky marshes. It's also associated with healing, so there's a plus it has. But to me it's meant none of these things, it's always been that tree leaning over the mirror's edge of Albion's waters, where under its shelter the rain could not soak me nor the sun burn me nor the world find me. And they're gorgeous trees! So few trees hang their leaves like locks of hair.
Sycamore trees are up there too, for Loud Whispers admires them for their twirling seeds. Apparently they're originally from middle and southern Europe, and gradually found their way up to the British isles in the middle ages. They've made quite the journey!
Here's a special one, London Plane tree. as the name'd suggest, it's an urban tree especially resistant to pollution that's been planted in London for about 300 years. Dank tree for city life, helps to break up the grey concrete-glass postmodernist scum they wish to smother the capital in.
Aspen trees occupy a fair field of forests in England I've been in, and so occupy a place in my brain. They also get confused with birches more often than not, and I wonder how many times an Aspen I've seen was a Birch or a Birch an Aspen.
English Elm tree. Looks like something they would've planted on Atlantis, if Atlantis were real.
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