This stunning collaboration between the noted garden writer
Nancy Ross Hugo and the photographer Robert Llewellyn showcases the
fruits of an effort begun in 2004 to research, locate, and
photograph Virginia's most remarkable trees. Four years later, more
than one thousand trees had been officially nominated to the
project and many others suggested for possible inclusion. The
results, presented in this elegant, four-color volume, are
astounding. Hugo and Kirwan, the project coordinators, have
selected a sample of trees and "tree places" that illustrate the
enormous variety, startling beauty, and fascinating history of
Virginia's trees.
Here you will see, through Llewellyn's incomparable lens, not
only some of Virginia's largest trees, including a newly discovered
national champion overcup oak in Isle of Wight County, but also
some of the state's oldest, including baldcypress trees over 800
years old in Southampton County and red cedars over 450 years old
in Giles. You will find unique trees like a willow oak in which a
tricycle is embedded, fine specimens like the massive American
beech in front of Sleepy Hollow Methodist Church in Falls Church,
and outrageously shaped trees, like the water tupelos in the
Cypress Bridge area of Southampton County. You will find trees
associated with famous people and events as well as trees
associated with ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Perhaps best
of all, you will learn about communities that have gone to great
lengths to protect their trees and about places where the public
can visit some of the best trees and "treescapes" in the state.
"Remarkable Trees of Virginia" is a celebration of trees, but it
doesn't dodge hard issues. In a section on urban forests, the
authors describe the major problems facing trees in urban areas and
point out strategies urban foresters are using to solve them. They
describe the ecological services trees provide and issue a call for
action both to protect trees in their existing habitats and to find
more places where trees can "grow large and long."
Hugo, Kirwan, and Llewellyn present a treasury of Virginia's
trees that is, indeed, remarkable.
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