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If ever I find myself at Stansted Airport with an hour or two to spare, I make a beeline for Hatfield Forest. Within its 400 hectares, many different landscapes can be glimpsed, all of them ancient. Oliver Rackham, the great chronicler of woodlands, described it as the 'Last Forest' as it's the only remaining intact Royal Hunting Forest. Parts of the forest are wood pasture, where individual trees dot open grassland grazed by cattle and deer, while other parts are dense coppice woodland. Of the trees to be seen, the Hornbeams (Carpinus betulus) are perhaps the most photographed, and on a bright winter day, their fantastic pollarded forms can be fully appreciated. There’s oak, hazel, maple and ash along with rarer trees like wild crab and service. Mistletoe is frequent too, my picture shows it hanging out on an old hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna). I just wish the forest wasn't quite so close to Stansted though, there's nothing like a low-flying Ryan Air 737 to locate you right back in the 21st Century...⠀ ⠀ #Treestagram #Treesofinstagram #instatree #tree_captures #Tree_brilliance #sharenaturepics #allkindsofnature #treesplease #Essex #HatfieldForest #treemagic #treelover #pocket_trees #worldwide_trees #treelover #treeshunter #Takeley #Stansted #Carpinusbetulus #pollard

I'm in the midst of an instagram takeover for @nineelmslondon where I'm posting some of the trees in SW8 - hop over to check it out. And, if you'd like to take a closer look at some of them, join me for an early evening walk on December 17th, follow the link in my bio, for more details. In the meantime, here's a couple of North American trees to whet your appetite. The first is a River Birch (Betula nigra), which unlike most birches found in London with their gleaming white bark, has attractive flaky bark. And next up is a tree with its feet in the water. It's an unusual deciduous conifer, a Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum). Don’t worry, it loves water, so that explains why it has been intentionally planted in the slightly bonkers James Bond-esque moat surrounding the new US embassy. And no, it’s not dead; being deciduous, the needles turn brown before falling off in the autumn! #Treestagram #Treesofinstagram #instatree #tree_captures #Tree_brilliance #sharenaturepics #allkindsofnature #treesplease #NineElmsLondon #Wandsworth #treemagic #treelover #pocket_trees #worldwide_trees #treelover #treeshunter #streettree #treelinedstreet #UrbanForest #Urbanlandscape #londonstreets #treesoflondon #LondonPop #LondonisaForest #Betulanigra #Taxodiumdistichum #londonbylondoners #london_enthusiasts #ilovelondon #thisislondon

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