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The National Trust has helped to put spring into my step with its #BlossomWatch social media campaign, encouraging people to post pictures of trees in flower.
Last month, the charity also ran a Spring into Action challenge through the exercise tracker Strava: after logging five hours of activity, participants were invited to donate £5 to plant a tree, one of the 20 million the trust has pledged to plant.
Trees give us hopeful blossom in spring, shade in summer, fruit in autumn, plus wood and oxygen. And what thanks do they get from us? Disease and deforestation.
Writers, at least, are often respectful. Richard Powers s award-winning The Overstory tells a tale of America through its trees a chestnut brought by immigrant pioneers to Iowa; the indigenous, ancient redwoods of California; a mulberry planted to remind an engineer born in China of his distant roots.