Vert Woods – Safe space?

@Vert Woods Hornbeam shines as a haven for bird's nests due to its tensile strength.

@Vert Woods Would you please explain "no fire uses twice"? Thank you friend

@Fagus Grandifolia Uses other than burning – ie cogs and machinery (first clip) and later on when he hints at other uses.

Roman's are responsible for the sweet chestnut and horse chestnut, along with the grey squriell

@Vert Woods Even though your blacksmith proved frustratingly camera-shy, the information could have been included.

@Melvin Dunn You triggered a dRUMPf-cultist. Not a difficult task.

@Diving Duck Spoken like a true tRump cultist.

@Melvin Dunn you have 5 more years to cry about it snowflake. LOL

I must say that I was impressed by the sincerity of the artist Mark Golding and his obvious inter-connection with trees, and in this case the Hornbeam. In regard to the video, and the words of Mr Golding, I would like to point out, if I may, that the name 'Hornbeam' is Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning 'Horn-Tree', the word 'beam' being akin to the German 'baum' meaning 'tree'. I cannot find any connection of 'horn-' to 'hard' in Old English, but the Proto-Germanic Root *hernaz can mean 'hard', so perhaps this did have this meaning too.

What is also very interesting is the use of Mr Golding's 'nature-spirit growth' since the Old Saxon (from Saxony in Germania) word for 'tree' – 'boom' – gave rise to the expression we use for scaring someone through acting as a 'ghost' – 'boo!' The term 'ghost' originally referred to a 'spirit' and thus the Old English 'beam' may have been linked to this, since the alternative word for 'tree' – treow – could have referred to the physical form. Perhaps the two, over time, became used with the same meaning. Obviously, Edward Bach, who could 'see' the properties of trees and plants, recognised this as being able to 'revive the soul'.