http://www.niwaki.com/UK based worldwide supplier of Tripod Ladders, Garden Ladders, Orchard Ladders, Hedging ladders, Japanese Pruning Tools, Topiary Shears, Okatsune, Tobisho, & Silky ARShttp://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/02/01/tree-patterns/Getting the house nice and warm today, I came across this bit of fire wood with an interesting pattern of some insect. http://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/02/01/tree-patterns/http://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/01/30/what-the/Imagine you're sitting on a bench on a summer's day, when suddenly a vast drill emerges from out of the ground behind you, from the centre of the earth, forcing its way up through the trees. Imagine that this drill was not metal, as you would expect, but a YEW DRILL, and what's more, slightly…http://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/01/30/what-the/http://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/01/29/horny-blimey/Two recent journeys in Wiltshire threw up some interesting trees - first a row of what I thought at the time were hornbeams, perhaps once a hedge but now a fine row of trees. Looking again, I think I was basing my assumption on the trunks - hornbeams have that nice fluted look - but not so sure…http://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/01/29/horny-blimey/http://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/01/20/abstract/ http://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/01/20/abstract/http://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/01/09/beech-woods-in-the-middle-of-a-hedge/I've had this pic on my computer for a few months now, and keep coming back to it. It's beech hedge. I'm not entirely sure what has happened to it, but it looks like the builders, being builders, decided to hack back one section to do a spot of building, and the plants then re-grew into this.  I…http://www.niwaki.com/blog/2012/01/09/beech-woods-in-the-middle-of-a-hedge/