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The English Oak Project
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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 · 23d
The slight gust of wind you feel in woodland is the brush of a passing angel's wing
The Angel Oak
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A pat on the back to anyone that can name the fungi, nuts, leaves, moss and flower stems in the photo
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Ancient Woodland Scene
A busy woodland floor
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Yes. When I am happy of the quality to be able to sell with confidence
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 21h
To those concerned, we have placed logs around and above the entrance 🙂
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She looks great!

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Decided on a final circular design to reduce the weight of the ink, but will wear this for a while to make sure we can put our name, and Bert’s, to it 🙂🐦‍⬛
A Bert Shirt
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 22h
If Bert sees me wearing this actual Bert Shirt delivered today, what will happen? 😬🐦‍⬛
A t-shirt with a blackbird on it
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d
Ancient Woodland doesn’t mean the trees are ancient

It means trees have been there undisturbed for thousands of years, & at least since consistent national records started in the 17th Century

It’s the soil that is ancient

The ghosts of the dying & the dead feeding the living
Ancient woodland floor covered in Autumn leaves, seeds and twigs
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When packing up our Teepee tent we noticed that on the ground underneath there were acorns

These must have been moved there, given the tent had been up since April, & then we found the Bank Vole’s entrance to their underground home 🙂
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Woodland Magic
If you look closely you can see the spider web strands holding the Sweet Chestnut leaf in mid air
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Sweet Chestnut 🙂🌳
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The forces of the Kingdom of Kent are experiencing constant air strikes

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There are heavy casualties as Sweet Chestnut Burrs rain down on the brave defenders 🤕

Morale is bolstered somewhat by the thought of dinner
Sweet Chestnuts
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I’m ready now
Knight in armour in Autumn woodland
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I have been hit with three of these today 🤕

So far
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A Sweet Chestnut Burr
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d
Noble Shadow the oak seedling is stirring within the acorn

The taproot continues its search for depth and moisture, throwing out secondary roots as it goes
Noble Shadow the oak seedling is stirring within the acorn The taproot continues its search for depth and moisture, throwing out secondary roots as it goes
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Brayton, Iowa

A surveyor was marking the line between Audubon and Cass counties and only had a cottonwood sprout and used it to mark the intersection and it's still there 172 years later
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d
If you see a tree in the middle of the road, please be patient as it takes time for them to cross
A tree in the middle of the road
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d
The tree, no. Herod? Bad man
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No idea 🙂
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Excavations at Herod the Great's palace in Israel, revealed a cache of 2,000 year old date palm seeds (Phoenix dactylifera) preserved in a jar

Scientists germinated the seeds & this is Methuselah, named after the longest-lived person listed in the Bible

Photo: D. A. Sonnenfeld
A date palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera)
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