Not content with his own extensive planting, he dreamed of a far larger scale at which point this then teenager from Munich set about founding his environmentalist group, “Plant-for-the-Planet” ( which to date has planted over 1 billion trees itself and, coupled with their partners in the United Nations, a staggering 14 billion trees in 130 countries. Today’s Tree Hero: Felix Finkbeiner – Today we remember another Felix, Felix Finkbeiner, who even by the time he was nine was an advocate for the preservation and planting of trees as a way to help heal the planet. Today’s Poem: “Hornbeams”, by Felix Dennis
Medicinally a compress has been used to relieve mental fatigue and physical tiredness and their flowers can be used to relieve stress, anxiety and insomnia. In the States the trees have become commonly known as Ironwood, again because of their hardwood quality, and whilst this makes them difficult to use for furniture and carpentry the quality has made them popular through the ages for use as parquet flooring, carving boards, tool handles or coppiced for hardwood poles or for gear pegs in windmills. The name comes from the fact that the wood is so hard that it is like horn and the “beam” is the modern derivation of the middle-English / Germanic word, “baum”, meaning tree. Hornbeams are a hardwood tree of the birch family of some 30-40 species across the temperate northern regions of the world, several being native to the UK. Today’s Tree: The Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) For more information on his work, please click here: Today’s Word: “samaras” – The papery, green-winged fruits of the hornbeam which develop from the female catkins, pollinated by wind. The charity’s mission is “the plantation, re-plantation, conservation and establishment of trees for the benefit of the public, together with the education of the public by the promulgation of knowledge and the appreciation of trees”.
Today’s Tree Hero: Felix Dennis – Today we remember Felix Dennis, self-described ‘publisher, poet and tree-planter’ who not only planted many thousands of trees in his lifetime but started the charity which became the founding of the new Heart of England Forest, which already has seen the planting of more than a million saplings of native species and will eventually spread to 20,000 acres, and left £150m in his will to continue and safeguard his vision.
Regular giving – helping us plan for the futureĪs our online contribution to National Tree Week we thought it might be fun to bring to you a tree hero each day as well as an unusual arboreal word, a picture and a poem of a different native tree.
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