My favourite Willow tree is the one in the Margaret Brown Gardens. You can stand under that tree and look through the long trailing branches down the long stretch of the River Thames towards Culham. Sometimes the branches hang like a string curtain, but in this picture the wind is throwing the slender branches back and forth and round.
On the other side of the Iron Bridge, there are a row of willows that shade the River Ock in Summer.
About half way along the Ock Valley Walk is a tree with a bare trunk covered in dark ivy. It has a top knot of leaves, and a curtain of thin branches.
Next to Abingdon Baptist Church is a well shaped weeping willow with its own gated area.
On the island in the Abbey Gardens are two or more willows that have grown together into a mound.
P.S And here is the Willow that once stood in front of the Old Gaol with thanks to Brian.
Shame you can no longer include the one in front of the Old Gaol.
Agreed Hester, you mean the one the developer cut down against their planning regulations, and was obliged to replace afterwards, but still has not done so? That one?
Backstreet, can you post one with a picture of the willow at the Old Gaol. It wa a famous one.
Is it official policy to ignore the felled willow? Do embarrassment and shame still function in the planning department?
Happy Easter, anyway!
PPJS. What willow….nothing to see here….move on please.
I cant quite believe they have been allowed to put up the sign for the new dentist – remarkably ugly
As offensive as the neon ‘portal’, Iain?
A fair point Bill, at least the neon thing isnt that big – the grey thing is huge
Ah, but the neon portal lights up at night. I’ve always thought it was sponsored by the Turkish barbers in town.
all this weeping over a willow! 🙂
Well, well, well – it seems that none of us would qualify for our Brownies’ or Scouts’ observation badge: I took a walk down that way this afternoon and what did I see, but a healthy young willow tree, probably planted last autumn! I am afraid that many of us won’t be around to see it when it reaches its full glory, but it’s a start! I will send Backstreeter a copy.
PS it has a little sign by it saying “Arthur’s Tree”, I wonder who Arthur is/was?
St Arthur is the patron saint of dodgy proerty developers.
Apparently Arthur was a resident who lived in one of the apartments overlooking the river. Sadly he died, but the Residents Committee decided that the tree should be named in his memory.
It’s Arthur’s Tree because it’s only Arthur Tree it used to be.