Kapok against a blue sky
This according to Google.
What is Dendrophobia? People with this specific phobia feel anxious when they think about or see a tree.
However, on the other hand a Dendrophile loves trees and forests. I have heard of The Phile Series, which apparently is a notebook for Forest and Tree Lovers which I will now try to find time to peruse.
I am clearly a Dendrophile as I have given my home the name of TreeVale. There isn’t a space for another tree to be planted without having a solid sun free canopy. No problem, as luckily, I live on a stand which leads down to a rivulet and for fifteen years, I have enjoyed this area to myself without passers-by, so it too has been planted with trees.
Yesterday I saw an article on what is being done to the Amazon Forest. It is sickening beyond any boundaries of sensibility. I would like to say that it is the fault of “Dendrophobia” which would give it some explanation, but unfortunately, it is caused by greedy, self-serving businesses and the unfortunates that run them and which do not care about this earth or its beautiful creatures. Too much of that sort of thinking will see a much-destroyed environment, a much lesser Earth.
More than one-third of the Amazon Forest has been degraded. Pic from Google
My one heart felt question is this, what about the wildlife that belong where God put them in the beginning. Remember, long ago, when we could say those words, Amazon Forest, and the image would be this magnificent solid treed area on Earth with all kinds of life within. What do we see now!
Who do we blame and what is to be done!
This ‘’Dendrophile’ was walking about this morning and admiring the nine Kapok trees that surround my property and which are now in full bloom. The deep blue of the winter sky is a wonderful back setting for all those magnificent pink blooms of the Kapok tree. However, it is a time for those who cannot stand any leaves or blooms on the ground to take a two-month break and go on holiday. Of course, it makes great compost, and a gardener will always find the positive for beauty.
There are so many angles to look at when talking about the survival of trees on the planet as we do need to harvest forests for wood. I live in a part of the world where forests come and go at an amazing rate, which is quite acceptable, as a twenty or so year time lapse will see a new forest being planted but those trees that have taken hundreds of years to grow and that have been home to much life will send me from this earth a much sadder person than when I arrived.
My garden of TreeDale
Forests
