Latest posts tagged with #GTOB on Bluesky
The Tilgate Hawthorn - its branches are supported by poles
Plaque indicating this tree is one of the trees dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy project in 2022
The Tilgate Hawthorn is one of the oldest in the UK and is one of the 70 #greattrees that were dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy project
#GreatTreesof Britain 🏆🌳🇬🇧 #GTOB
This #winsculpted thorn near Beachy Head points the way to the world’s longest coastal path
#GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Amazingly, this #greattree is the ORIGINAL Bramley apple tree - and it’s still alive!
ALL Bramley apples 🍏 ultimately derive from this one tree 🤩, which makes it …
… the #MotherofallApplePies
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧
#GreatTreesof #MothersDay
The Hafod beech on the Hafod Estate, Ceredigion, Wales 🏴
National Trust notice board showing the trails around the Hafod Estate
I found the Hafod Beech, which is one of the original Thomas Jones plantings (1782-1813), on the blue 🟦 trail, ‘Lady’s Walk’, below Hawthorn cottage @nationaltrust.org.uk
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧
#greattreesof Ceredigion 🏴
#thicktrunktuesday
#fingerpostfriday
I’m off to see one of the Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧 …
… but which one, and which trail should I take ? 🟩🟦🟥 🤔
Clue: I’ll give you the correct answer on #thicktrunktuesday
On Cannock Chase …
TiCL View App points out #Treebeard - the #greattree that surely inspired Tolkein’s Ent characters in #LOTR
#GreatTreesof Staffordshire
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧
Find #greattrees @ticl.me
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@gwtreelover.bsky.social
A super special #greattree for you this #thicktrunktuesday
The Defynnog Yew is one of the oldest trees in the UK - likely to be 2,000-3,000 years old (some estimate 5000yrs) 🤩
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌲🇬🇧
#GreatTreesof #Britain
@ancienttreeforum.bsky.social
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So Christian showed me The Ilex Avenue
With over 400 Holm oaks dating back to 1840, this is considered by many to be one of the finest of its kind in the world
#GreatTrees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧 (we choose them from your suggestions @TiCLme )
Concern over future of the original Bramley apple tree as house is sold
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🌳🏆 🇬🇧
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
… the Meikleour Beech Hedge has some great examples @hughwilliamson.bsky.social
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#GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧
The film starts at one tree 🌳 and ends at the other 🌴
Can you name the film 🎥 ?
#GreatTreesof #Wiltshire
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧
@lostinfilms.bsky.social
Our map of the Great Trees of Britain #GTOB now features > 1000 #greattrees
We’re looking forward to developing this map with you further in 2026
#GreatTreesof #Britain 🏆🌳🇬🇧
bsky.app/profile/ticl...
You made some wonderful additions to our map of the #GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB 🏆 🌳 🇬🇧
#treeslikethese
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Green roofs are not a new thing …
The sycamore on the top of Colchester Castle was planted in 1815 to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB
@cha0tic.bsky.social
@colcivicsociety.bsky.social
@jetraven.bsky.social
#thicktrunktuesday
Possibly the oldest Cedar of Lebanon in the UK lives in Essex 🤩
Phenomenal cosmic power … itty bitty living space
#GreatTreesof #Britain #GTOB 🏆🌲🇬🇧
For #thicktrunktuesday I give you one of the #GreatTreesof #Nottingham …
indeed Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳 🇬🇧
See them with me: ticl.me/the-great-tr...
#thicktrunktuesday
The 4000 year old #Seahenge central tree stump can still be seen at Lynn Museum
It’s also one of my Great Trees of Britain #GTOB @ticl.me 🏆🌳🇬🇧
www.lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk/article/3049...
An oval wooden palisade wall with two central posts
#SeaHenge2
In 1998 shifting sands on the North Norfolk Coast revealed this …
Constructed from wood in 2049 BC - this remarkable Bronze age structure can still be seen at very low tides off Holme-next-the-Sea #GTOB
www.holme-next-the-sea.co.uk/seahenge.php...
The Birnam Oak and its neighbour the Birnam Sycamore are thought to be the sole surviving trees of the great forest celebrated in Shakespeare's Macbeth as ‘Birnam Wood’ #BirnamWood
#GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🌳🇬🇧
Today, a really #greattree for you 🤩
The Holme Lacy pear tree 🍐
Probably the oldest pear tree in the world (and, at one time, almost certainly the biggest)
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳 🇬🇧
#GreatTreesof #Herefordshire
‘Before you stands Europe's - and possibly even the world's - oldest living thing’
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳 🇬🇧
#GreatTreesof #Britain
Fortingall yew - a #GreatTree #RootedinHistory
@dendrochronicle.bsky.social
Over the last 10 years, from your TiCL and social media posts, I’ve been developing a FREE, live, map and App guide to The Greatest Trees in Britain 🤩
The #GreatTrees of Britain #GTOB 🌳🏆 🇬🇧
#GreatTreesof #Britain
See them HERE (and download the new TiCL View App) NOW
ticl.me/the-great-tr...
Something special for you …
At 500 years old this is probably the oldest field maple in the UK 🤩
#GreatTreesof Essex
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳 🇬🇧
#thicktrunktuesday The 450+ year old Reid Moir Oak 🌳
A #GreatTree of Ipswich saved from destruction for a new road in 1953 by #treehero James Reid Moir, both now Legends of Broom Hill🤩
#GreatTreesof Suffolk
#GreatTrees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧
@treeside.bsky.social
@treeshepherd.bsky.social
#thicktrunktuesday
thick and twisted
The Tehidy Country Park Beech
#GreatTreesof Cornwall @Botany2021
#GreatTrees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳 🇬🇧
This isn’t any old place …
This is The Enchanted Place 🤩
You’ll find it and other #WinnieThePooh landmark locations in Ashdown Forest more easily with ‘me
ticl.me/winnie-the-p...
#GreatTreesof Britain 🏆🌳 🇬🇧 #GTOB
You get 2 for 1 #GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB this #thicktrunktuesday 🌳🌳🏆🇬🇧
When you visit the Birnam Oak (all that’s left of the Wood made famous by Shakespeare’s Macbeth) …
@andyheald.bsky.social
@wtscotsocial.bsky.social
#thicktrunktuesday a #GreatTree for you (Adrian & Cookie for scale)
The Drumlanrig Sycamore is 300 years old and the the largest in the UK 🤩
#GreatTreesof Dumfries & Galloway
Great Trees of Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳 🇬🇧
@andyheald.bsky.social
@twigsinhair.bsky.social
@woodiechef.bsky.social
Seeing as it’s #thicktrunktuesday here’s a #greattree
Despite its size it’s a bit tricky to find, so let me #pointout the Willesley Park Sweet chestnut 🌳 🌰
It’s another of the Queen’s Green Canopy trees and one of the #GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🇬🇧
I’d sort of assumed Douglas fir 🌲 had been part of the Scottish landscape for ever …
Then you showed me the first one planted in the UK 😮
#GreatTreesof Dumfries
Great Trees of Britain 🏆🌳 🇬🇧 #GTOB
