Carpinus B, 'Edna'

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It's midnight, you are lost in the forest and you see Edna,
what do you do?
I'd take the liberty to make her a bit more presentable with a fitting attire. For decorative purposes only, of course.

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And for the people wondering: yes, that on the fingertips is pink nail polish.. Because like my mom always said: You shouldn't go out into the woods at night looking like a wooden stump!
 

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I'd take the liberty to make her a bit more presentable with a fitting attire. For decorative purposes only, of course.

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And for the people wondering: yes, that on the fingertips is pink nail polish.. Because like my mom always said: You shouldn't go out into the woods at night looking like a wooden stump!

And yet, the one wearing a top hat and monocle, is wearing lipstick....
 

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I'd take the liberty to make her a bit more presentable with a fitting attire. For decorative purposes only, of course.

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And for the people wondering: yes, that on the fingertips is pink nail polish.. Because like my mom always said: You shouldn't go out into the woods at night looking like a wooden stump!

Our darling Edna scrubs up well😍😂
 

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I'm afraid Bobby, you've stepped over the legal line here and the lawyers will be calling on you soon...
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Planter's Nuts may be calling Edna as a witness, too.
 

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Not quite the same degree of twist as the sleepy hollow tree, a few of the branches look a dead ringer though, with sharp angular movement a mixture of wire and pruning.
As the wood dries out in the top we could get some more pronounced jagged edges in there. More detail, the wood is extremely hard and dense atm
This will be available soon.
 

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Strange, weird, eerie...

Unusual idea of "what a tree is" :rolleyes:

But why not ? ;)
 

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Not strange at all...
If you go down to the woods today, you might get a big surprise
 

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Not strange at all...
If you go down to the woods today, you might get a big surprise

Huh huh... I haven't had magic mushrooms for about 45 years now, so... 🤤

But it's OK : it's not my cup of tea, but it's OK : I still have big privets in the back of my garden, taken from a hedge. The only way I can make a "bonsai" out of them is to have a lot of dead wood, carve them, etc. If they survive the winter (which they will do, even with no care at all), I'll try and style them the "English way".

I mean it will be exciting to style trees in a way I'm not familiar with, or that I even don't like that much.

I've often been harsh on you, but that's a matter of "style" : you can criticize me too for my "apparent roots" which is I style I fancy and that's frankly rather un-natural too, isn't it ? But, all right, that's what you like, and many like it too, so I hope you will grant me a full pardon for speaking out my mind... 😎
 

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Huh huh... I haven't had magic mushrooms for about 45 years now, so... 🤤

But it's OK : it's not my cup of tea, but it's OK : I still have big privets in the back of my garden, taken from a hedge. The only way I can make a "bonsai" out of them is to have a lot of dead wood, carve them, etc. If they survive the winter (which they will do, even with no care at all), I'll try and style them the "English way".

I mean it will be exciting to style trees in a way I'm not familiar with, or that I even don't like that much.

I've often been harsh on you, but that's a matter of "style" : you can criticize me too for my "apparent roots" which is I style I fancy and that's frankly rather un-natural too, isn't it ? But, all right, that's what you like, and many like it too, so I hope you will grant me a full pardon for speaking out my mind... 😎

Mate, you dont need to style them another way if you dont like that way. frankly though, you could walk into any forest in the world and find trees with weird looking holes, crevices, oddities carved out, shaped by mother nature. i could google 'scary trees' and see 100's of images of creepy looking trees what look like they have faces in. its common, dead tops, dead crowns i see all the time.
 

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you could walk into any forest in the world and find trees with weird looking holes, crevices, oddities carved out, shaped by mother nature.

That's true. And yes, there are some like that. But maybe more where you live, because where I walk into a forest, I don't see many trees with "weird looking holes, crevices, oddities carved out", etc.

So it's "cutural".

Let's take the example of "L'Hermione" : the trees were selected in forests for their shape, some straight, others matching the curves needed to build a ship : no rotten wood would fit in !

The trees that were selected were sometimes over a hundred year old.

I like trees that are healthy enough to be part of the future, not a kind of memory of whatever "legend".

L'Hermione, frégate de la Liberté (Fregate of (the) Liberty) :


Do you think they would have built a ship from rotten trees ? 🤤

To me, a tree is not symbolized by a cripple, an end-of life rotting tree hanging half-rotten roots in the past, it's on the contrary a resilient, even young healthy tree that has a flowering future : a different fantasy, but that's mine. 😎

See what I mean ? When the lockdown is over, I'll be very happy to meet you in ex-Europe, England : I'm pretty sure we can have a lot of fun discussing together.
 
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If thats what you like cool.
I like all kinds usually, maybe apart from conifer looking deciduous.
But i have my favourites based on what i see around me.
 

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Those strange trees are not so present in North American woods. Everything here came after the last ice age and the old growth forests are more timber-like. You Brits have an affinity for grotesque bonsai trees which, IMHO, reflects what you see in your woods. It's not that others from elsewhere don't also like grotesque trees, but Brit's, and maybe Englishmen even more so, have more than all others combined. At least from what I see on this thread. I'm not making a judgement, I'm making an observation.
 
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