luka
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Britain is a desert landscape essentially.
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Britain is a desert landscape essentially.
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Birkenhead park was the first park to be established at public expense in the United Kingdom. Prior to Birkenhead all parks had been created by private individuals or private organisations and access was held privately, although it could be given to the public. Birkenhead park was influential on the design of public parks both in the UK and internationally and it is considered a landmark in the history of public parks.[6]
Murphy
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There are Forests, but wilderness not really
www.cpre.org.uk
2 stars = 2 European Cups. Apologies, had to get that in.
Britain goes for areas of outstanding natural beauty, which are essentially big fuck off gardens
landscapesforlife.org.uk
Scotland gets the rough end of things as usual.
Enjoy the autumn colours in England’s historic forests - CPRE
Whether you’re into walking, wildlife watching or ‘leaf-peeping’, here's what to look out for in some of our favourite forests to visit in autumn.
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2 stars = 2 European Cups. Apologies, had to get that in.
Britain goes for areas of outstanding natural beauty, which are essentially big fuck off gardens
Overview map of the UK's Areas of Outstanding Beauty
This map above shows in dark green the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Move across the map to see the names of each area and you can tap to learn more about that individual AONB.
Scotland gets the rough end of things as usual.
where I grew up in California
You grew up in Morro Bay?
Mr. Tea
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Recalls the George Monbiot ranticle that the Guardian published a few years ago, that said "Go for a walk in the British countryside, and what do you see? Sheep, sheep and more bloody sheep." He's got a point.
There are some plantation forests - much more than there are ancient forests, actually - but they're often planted with non-native pine trees. They can be spooky as fuck, because they're dead silent due to the absence of birds. In some of them the trees are even planted on a regular grid pattern.
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IdleRich
IdleRich
Ah ha ha deeper than a certain value (I forget what) is actually known as a ho ho.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Looks like the place we went the other day.
IdleRich
IdleRich
It's certainly true that there are quite a lot of green spaces inside towns - definitely in Portugal (at least in Lisbon and the surrounding villages) I often feel that there is greenery missing from the streets, big spaces that really ought to have trees in them... you know, the centres of streets and so on, but they just... don't.
pattycakes_
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those planted forests are weird for sure. loads of them here in germany too.
luckily along with the sheep, where i grew up had a few trees too
hard not to be inspired by it all. certainly didn't do wordsworth any harm. or taylor swift for that matter
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
You mean the garbage guy's mansion?
IdleRich
IdleRich
Indeed... with the feature I referred to as a pergola.
Actually, googling it, it appears that I was correct
There is a nice one in Hampstead Heath I recall
We intend to pay another visit to the Palacio do Rei do Lixo soon with a few intrigued friends. A night time visit might be fun but somehow I doubt we will dare that... well, the others might but I won't.
sus
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You been?
sus
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that's SoCal, don't get Central and NorCal confused!
We actually have been in a decade-long drought in the Central Coast, I won't lie. It's meadows and oak, really big, beautiful silvery oak.
I once did a coach journey through Italy via France and Switzerland and the landscape in the hills was stunning, I remember being shocked by how many trees there were, right beside the roads too. In Scotland you can see forests but their right up in the hills, miles away from the roads and railway lines.