tell me something about the willow tree?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar\n\nthese sites pretty much explain it for you..I personally like the willow much better.
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"THE STORY OF THE BLUE WILLOW CHINA" \n  Long ago, in the days when China was ruled by emperors, a Chinese manderin,Tso Ling, lived in the magnificent pagoda under the branches of the apple tree on the right of the bridge, over which droops the famous willow tree, and in front of which is seen the graceful lines of the fence. Tso Ling was the father of a beautiful girl, Kwang-se, who was the promised bride of an old but wealthy merchant. The girl, however, fell in love with Chang, her father’s clerk. The lovers eloped across the sea to the cottage on the island. The mandarin pursued and caught the lovers and was about to have them killed when the gods transformed them into a pair of turtle doves. These are seen gazing into each other’s eyes at the top of the design.\n\n  A lengthy and old Staffordshire poem of the pattern concludes with the verse: "In the oft quoted plate two birds are perceived, High in the heaven above: These are the spirits of Chang and Kwang-se, A twin pair of ever in love".\n\n  Willow, in its present form was originated in the UK in 1790 by Thomas Turner at Caughley Pottery Works in Shropshire.
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http://oregonstate.edu/trees/dk/
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TELL ME ABOUT U SOMETHING
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Name  ,   Meaning       ,     Origin \nShelby ,   Willow Farm,  Old English
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According to Brenna Hall:\n\nClara and Maria entered their house and closed the door.\n\nThey were living in Germany in about 1572 and they had just come in from getting apples. They had just brought home apples from the market and were now getting thin cookies, cutting out paper roses and apples to put on their Christmas tree.\n\nMaria, the younger of the two sisters, asked, “Why do we use green and red at Christmastime?”\n\nClara, the oldest said, “Well, we use green because we use evergreens – like our tree. Evergreens represent everlasting life. Christ died for us and he still lives -- maybe not on earth but in heaven. That is what everlasting life is.”\n\nWhile the girls decorated the rest of the tree, Clara continued telling Maria other legends and stories of the green and red colors at Christmas.\n\n“Even before Christ, there were men and women called druids that worshipped the earth. They used evergreens in the winter to show that the woodland and fairies live with them during winter.\n\nThe Romans kept branches during winter through the beginning of January and then they would exchange branches with their friends. They would trade them to show a sign of good luck.\n\nThe Egyptians treasured and worshipped evergreens. When the winter solstice arrived they would bring palm trees into their homes to show triumph over death, even though it doesn’t last all through winter.\n\nThere are even several legends of the Christmas tree. Like Martin Luther, in the year 1535. I will tell you about him. He was the one that first put lights on the Christmas tree. He was walking home one evening after he had been giving a sermon and he saw the stars above the evergreens and he was very amazed. He wanted to be able to show his family and recapture the scene so he brought candles and a tree into his living room, put the candles on the tree and that is how we got the lights.”\n\nMaria smiled and looked up at their tree. She loved Christmas. The tree made the drab days of winter just outside their little home a lot brighter. “Do you know any more stories?” she asked.\n\n“I know two more,” Clara continued.\n\n“One about a man named Saint Boniface. Saint Boniface was an English missionary and was out walking when he came upon some men about to cut a huge oak tree as a stake for a human sacrifice to their pagan god. With one mighty blow, Saint Boniface chopped down the tree and a beautiful young fir tree sprang from the center. He told the men that its branches were pointing to heaven.\n\nMy last story to tell you is about a poor woodsman. He was walking home one night when he came upon a hungry child. Even though he was very poor himself he gave the child food and shelter for the night. When he awoke the next morning he rose to find a sparkling tree outside his house. The child was really the Christ child in disguise. And the tree was a gift as a reward for his charity.”\n\nMaria smiled again as the thought of her own Christmas tree warmed her.\n\n“Before you were born and I was very young, there were these things called Paradise Plays.” Clara said.\n\n“They were plays showing parts of the Bible. And they had things in them like evergreens and apples, wafers and things like we are using right now. They were plays of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve. The apples were the fruit and they would play out the story every year on December 24th.”\n\nClara paused, and then frowned a little. “But a little while after the people in the plays became very rude. And the Catholic Church didn’t think the plays were very respectful. So they made it so we couldn’t have those plays anymore.”\n\nClara stopped and thought for a moment. ”Well, I have explained green and I guess these plays are a good way to explain why we use red.”\n\n“First, remember how I told about the apples from the Paradise Plays? They were red. They were used to represent the fall of Adam. When the Church stopped the plays people brought
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(Hainault Forest, Essex, UK).\n\nHainault Forest.\n\nThe forest, damp and dismal is still a wondrous place,\nIt holds so many secrets in its dark green shrouded space.\nNature’s solid beauty that’s seen in an oak tree,\nThe singing birds, unspoken words, the humming of the bee.\n\nThe brown blackbird within its nest, \nThe heron on one leg at rest,\nThe squirrel scampering through the tree,\nThese are some things, which you can see.\n\nThe lakes with frogs, fish, ducks and geese,\nThe long dry grass moves with the breeze,\nThe silence, save for the curlews cry\nAs tufts of clouds in the sky drift by.\n\nThe pheasants showing their dark red crests,\nThe green woodpecker that never rests,\nThe hare out running at great speed,\nThe dandelions with their airborne seed.\n\nThe sound of laughter from somewhere nearby,\nThe crying call of a small lost boy,\nThe sight of a fox out with its young,\nThe rabbits romping having fun.\n\nYoung lovers walking hand in hand,\nThe distant sound of a small brass band,\nThe sudden cry of a startled Jay,\nThe setting sun, the end of day.\n\nSo what at first seemed dark and grey,\nHolds secrets of a world at play,\nBeauty is in the eyes of the beholder,\nSo open yours to nature’s wonder.\n\nSuch marvels which are in Gods Plan,\nWere given by Him, to earthly man,\nSo I beg you, if you please,\nSee the forest - not just the trees.\n\n--------------------
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Depends upon the tree and the conditions.  Pussie willow shoots (especially green ones) can be placed in a container of water and will actually grow roots.  These can be planted in the ground to form new trees or bushes.  Weeping willows do the same.\nExperiments have been done with whole evergreens to determine the amount of transpiration (of water vapor) from their needles (the trunk of the tree being placed in an aqueous solution of dilute minerals).  Based upon the oxygen gas generated if the tree is in sunlight), the tree does continue to live for some time.
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a eucaliptus tree when it is being attacked by a cater piller sends mesages via feramones trough the air which are picked up by similar trees often many miles away.\nwhen the caterpillars reach this tree it is ready for them and kills them with a poisen ,that it has develloped in the meantime and secretes trough its leaves. \nPAIN\nPlants belonging to people with green fingers ,who talk to their plants ,are proven to do better.\n\nThere once was a famouse experiment,wherby 7 people walked into a room where there was a big plant,that was wired up to a lie detector.\nOne of the people had a knife and cut some parts of the plant.\nthen later when the péople were brought before the plant again,the lie detector gave a violent leap in its readings ,when the person with the knife was brought before it.\nthe same experiment was done with trees and in all cases the same result.\n\nNorth american indians dance around a tree singing that they are going to kill it,than quickly they turn around and chop down its neighbour,this indicates that they believe the tree has fellings or a spirit.\n\nyou make up your own mind if there is more to trees than meets the eye
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I am really not 100% sure. My sister has done some research, and according to her the folklore is more of a Native American tradition (thought she cant remember for sure) and it has something to do with the Aspen containing a spirit similar to an animal. That when a branch falls off, the tree "bleeds". when it is healed it looks similar to an eye, with which the spirit in the tree can see out. That the spirits can watch and actually see you. I tried researching this in European traditions including the White Poplar and came up with nothing, so I am inclined to believe that she has a decent summarized recollection of the folklore.
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i used to see this old man with an axe in our back yard all the time, especially at night. i'd tell my dad and he'd look but after a few nights of not seeing him my dad thought i was being silly and ignored it. One day the neighbor heard us talking about it and told my dad that the last occupants' grandfather had died cutting down and old tree in the back, the tree had fallen on him and the stump had never been removed. My brother and i never played near that stump ever again.
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"How Plants Behave Like Animals". It was a blast. All about orchids that shaped themselves like female wasps, and would trick the male wasp into pollenating them. Very interesting stuff.
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Thanksgiving weekend is the time we put up our tree! we ned atleast 2 1/2 days to get tehj job done right. I am particular!!!!\nIt's an artificial 7 1/2 ft  Mountain King. We always get visitors claiming that it won't last until Christmas because it looks so real!\nIt has individual branches to insert and shape separately and stands about 7 ft wide at the bottom. I have over 600 ornaments from antique to current Hallmark, including blown glass, and lots of hand crafted ones.  We also have complete sets like the Lenox Carousel set and some older Hallmark Club designs.  Oldest is a very plain glass, oval shaped bulb. It's about 75 years old and was my grandmother's.  We use over 500 of them each year. The lights I use are the larger C5 and I use about 75-85 of these,  very carefully spaced and proportioned for color.  I add about 5 or 6 'twinkle' lights to give a soft  twinkling background effect and it works very nicely. You have to go light with these or it starts to look like a store front ! We add candy canes to be given to the younger visitors and they all go by time the tree is ready for it's rest. I also use and love our blown glass icicles and hang them off the very ends of specific branches to give a more majestic effect to the tree. I have a colorful tree skirt with a horse drawn sleigh to cover the base. \nI recently added a few bubble lights to give it some additional life.\nIt gets to be more fun with each passing year and as my two girls lend a hand and share laughs. \nMan, do I live for this!!!  Have a Merry Christmas!!!!
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I recommend reading "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"...a classic book about a girl being in New York in the 1920's in between wars. It's really very excellent.
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The Hartford Couurant, a newspaper in Conn. wrote a story about Rory Emerald finding Yoko Ono's bonsai tree. Of course it turned out to be a hoax, a friendly hoax. The Post & other tattler tabloids had a lot of fun with the ruse. (great & thought provoking question)
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Cardinal, Peony Flower, Tulip Poplar Tree
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inner bark of the pine to relieve coughs & bark and leaves of willow to treat cuts, sores and skin lesions. hope this helps!