Trees are my favourite plants on the planet…

and there is such a variety in our garden that I can’t stop writing about them.

Copper Beech in the Garden

The handsome beech

Crept into the garden

Etched furtively

A space in the corner

And grew

Slender limbs

Delicate tracery

Against the sky

Metallic leaves

Flash with sunlight

Burnished bronze

And copper