Post No. 1,351 - Trees and Forests

One of the books I am enjoying reading at the moment is Peter Wohlleben's "The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World" (Amazon), which has an amazing amount of insight into trees - such as:

• the ability of trees to interact / communicate with each other to share resources, warn of insect attacks, etc; 
• the existence of "mother trees", which shade their "children so that the offspring grow more slowly, giving them smaller cells and thus the tree greater durability and likelihood of long life; 
• the longer cycles of tree life than commercial forest logging; 

and many others.

I'll do a proper review when I finish, but it has supported my desire to have trees rooted into the earth, to have more than one tree of a species, to keep the trees at around backyard fence height and no more (i.e., ~1.8 m), and to look after soil using natural processes (such as composting lawn clippings, rather than buying commercial products).

In the meantime, here are a few other links that might be of interest:

• Suzanne Simard, who identified the "mother tree" concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suzanne_Simard&oldid=893635629; 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plant_to_plant_communication_via_mycorrhizal_networks&oldid=891755996;
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mycorrhizal_network&oldid=898187454; and 
• these videos on Vimeo, which I have not bought or rented yet: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/intelligenttrees/181082721.

Enjoy :)

PS: you can find more of my posts on trees and forests at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/trees and https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/forest.  

 

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