Hello Trees is a series of books about trees for little explorers (and their grown ups) aged 4-7 who love getting outdoors and learning about our world
Hertfordshire, UK
Joined March 2015
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What's outdoors: ash tree flowers. Some ash trees bear male flowers and some bear female flowers. It is fun to take a closer look. For a discovery sheet see - mailchi.mp/0ef77427feda/what…
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What to look for outdoors: blackthorn blossom appears startlingly early - and thank goodness it does because it is crucial food for solitary bees that emerge early from hibernation. Rewards a close-up look. - mailchi.mp/6002b29ebdfe/what…
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What to look for and do outdoors: make yew trees give off 'smoke' - mailchi.mp/7746627e8dea/what…
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What to look for outdoors: everyone's favourite, male pussywillow catkins are emerging, silky and silvery right now, but soon to be fluffy bundles of yellow, a magnet for early solitary bees. - mailchi.mp/a113e757f77a/what…
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What to look for and do outdoors: tree bark vs skin. Bark rubbing gets you outdoors and gets you looking, feeling and thinking about bark as a wildlife habitat and the jobs it does for the tree - mailchi.mp/a03cd423066c/what…
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Looking outdoors for holly trees and checking them out is a fun way to show off our tree-identification skills - mailchi.mp/e8c9d24a9602/what…
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This week, it is fun to look outdoors for oak buds. What do you think is inside the buds? And how do you think oak branches become 'all knees and elbows'? - mailchi.mp/3339d109e90b/what…
Want to look for interesting things outdoors this week? See if you can spot ash trees. Some of them have 'keys'! All have easily identifiable buds. Enjoy the fun discovery sheet right now - mailchi.mp/5f0030163cc2/what…
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Take a torch amongst trees at dusk. Right now, male winter moths are fluttering around flightless females crawling up the bark - mailchi.mp/7b189be1f866/what…
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Amaze yourself with the art you can create with Autumn leaves and twigs. - mailchi.mp/ce29bba39512/what…
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What to do outdoors this week: Autumn colours are particularly glorious this year: perfect for gay works of art - mailchi.mp/8f5909d6524a/what…
What to do outdoors this week: Seize the season with all your senses. Loads of ideas - mailchi.mp/1ff27dd885d0/what…
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Outdoors now: delightful pussy willow catkins. Be sure to have a magnifying glass at the ready to enhance your delight in the catkins - and to help spot Purple Emperor butterfly larvae along the twigs.- mailchi.mp/01ee564a23be/outd…
Youngsters love to flick yew tree flowers and see clouds of 'smoke' issue forth. Yew trees are to be found in churchyards and it is fun to find out which are males and which are females, which are English and which are Irish. Download a Discovery Sheet - mailchi.mp/73fe4088ac9f/what…
Anyone near St Albans? Weather set fair for the Winter Tree Identification Walk tomorrow 9th January 10.30-11.30am in Jersey Farm Woodland Park, starting Jersey Lane entrance What3words Helps.once.mats. worldoftrees.org.uk/event/wi… See you there. Simply turn up. Kate 07901 945920. – at East, England
Raking apple leaves off the grass to make leaf mould has been like raking garnets and the odd nugget of gold. – at East, England
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Kate Bretherton retweeted
Release your inner artist and make an ice decoration for day 5 of #12DaysWild
I thought the #GrinlingGibbons C18th connection with lime #woodworking ancient but today my @britishmuseum mag tells of bast grave goods 4000 years ago. Bast is beaten limetree bark. I knew it was used by native Americans but did not know of this evidence of prehistoric use. – at East, England