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| Golden beech on a golden October day |
I made the acquaintance of another beautiful tree today, a magnificent beech with a wide trunk, spreading branches and leaves turning gold.
This is a 'mast year' and the ground under the tree is covered with beech nuts. Traditionally, pigs would have been let into the woods to eat the mast and I can imagine them here, feasting happily in the warm autumn sunshine.
Beech is not a native Irish tree and doesn't figure in the Ogham tree alphabet, yet I feel a close affinity with it. We are both native to the south of England but grow well in Ireland when we put down strong roots.
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