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The English Oak Project

@thekentacorn.bsky.social

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Our Oak Trees & their Sweet Chestnut chums in our ancient bluebell woodland in the Weald of Kent. Also pictures and facts about trees twitter.com/TheKentAcorn

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 17d

The slight gust of wind you feel in woodland is the brush of a passing angel's wing

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 41m

It’s a good point. Yes fingers crossed. At least I’ve only ordered one 🙂

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 48m

Haven’t considered anything, I’m a woodsman 🙂🌳

Will find out soon 😬

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 59m

Final design, test t-shirt ordered 🐦‍⬛

To make sure I don’t get deluged with complaints I will wear for a while to make sure it’s going to last before putting out for sale

Price will be close to cost, plus a few pennies for raisins

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1h

A slight change of wording, and meaning 🙂🐦‍⬛

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 2h

☺️🌳🌳🌳🌳

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3h

That is better 🙂🐦‍⬛

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 4h

So we are finally getting around to designing a Bert Shirt

What do you think?

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 5h

Be like Bert

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning from the Kingdom of Kent

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10h

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 4h

So we are finally getting around to designing a Bert Shirt

What do you think?

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 5h

🙂

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 5h

Be like Bert

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 9h

🫡🌳

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning from the Kingdom of Kent

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10h

Often attributed to Alfred Lord Tennyson, although I cannot see that it is a direct quote from any known works. Happy to be proved wrong 🙂

I do know that this is our woodland ☺️🌳🌳🌳

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10h

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Oak (Quercus douglasii) in Fog, Santa Lucia Preserve, Carmel Valley, California

Photo: William Guion

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Tree on the Moon

A full moon captured in perfect symmetry behind a solitary tree on a hilltop

Photo: Bernd Nowack

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d

Secondary roots are now appearing. The taproot literally splits open to allow these lateral roots to extend. It is also how the taproot expands in girth

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d

Our acorn hero’s taproot has reached the bottom of the vase

The seedling knows which way is down (& up) as trees have gravity-sensing organelles called statoliths in their root & shoot cells

Until now the seedling has had no resistance, so what happens to the taproot now?

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d

🙂🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d

🙂🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d

Our woodland is near Lamberhurst 🙂🌳🌳🌳

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d

200 hundred 🤨

I meant 200 🙄

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