Judi Dench My Passion for Trees FULL BBC One 2017

i'm judy dench and i've been an actor for 60 years but i have another passion which may come as quite a surprise ever since i've been a little girl i've adored trees oh it's lovely i've even turned my six acre garden into a secret woodland and i think of my trees as part of my extended family but i've always suspected that there is much more to these beautiful magical giants now over the course of a year i'm going to find out how much they live breathe and even communicate i'll discover how they survive the harshest winter isn't that just beautiful i'll hear what's going on beneath the bark when they burst back into life in spring and now we're going to place it back on the tree how they fight back against invading hordes my tree doing all that work i'll see into the heart of my beloved oak tree it's riveted i'll discover how our woodlands shaped our history oh you're joking i'll even find out if trees live in communities just like us a forest like this is a very very social place do you know there are more trees on the planet than there are stars in our galaxy there's so much for me to discover my life now is just trees and trees and um and champagne [Music] whenever i can whatever the season this is where i escaped [Music] these are the trees i've nurtured for over 30 years i started planting trees here with my actor husband michael williams michael died in 2001 but even before that every time a relative or a friend died we would plant a tree this is jeff this is one of my brothers this is stephen hanley he was a lovely lovely actor and a singer in a little night music at the national and he died and we put this in and it's just like him he's very very tall and we're kind of pale and it's lovely we've got ian richardson and we've got natasha richardson no relation ian and i were at stratford together and natasha i was at uh central with vanessa and this is michael but this was already here when michael died then that was 16 years ago so this is not a 16 year old tree but it was a young tree at the time it is about remembering and it's something for me it's something that's living that goes on so that it's not a you know you don't remember them and stop you remember them and and the memory goes on and gets more wonderful now it's time for me to learn more about my beloved trees at the bottom of my garden in the heart of surrey and there's no better time to start than in the winter i think my trees are at their most magical at this time of the year sleeping giants waiting for spring to arrive their icy beauty takes my breath away how like a winter hath my absence been from thee the pleasure of the fleeting year what freezings have i felt what dark days seen what old december's bareness everywhere when it's freezing outside there's nothing i like more than sitting in the warmth with david [Music] david has devoted his life to nature and conservation and he shares my passion for trees so i'm going to find some quotes for you now all right now try and spot what plays there okay but you in the park about midnight this is the merry wives well done we've been together now for seven years and she's just great fun to be with we both got good senses of humor and the the silliest of things gives us fits and giggles this is possible oh yes creep into acorn cups and hide them there well it seems that shakespeare knew a thing or two about trees and now it's my turn to learn more and i'm going to need some help tony kirkham is the head of the tree collection at kew gardens one of the largest in the world he's going to help me uncover the secret lives of my trees so you want to learn more about trees judy yeah always i do i'd love to know more about them you know you i don't i don't know that much about them i just know i love them so much and i know you know everything that i don't know well i'd love to do that with you judy and you live in an amazing part of the world because surrey is the most wooded county in england and so wooded in fact that there are more deer in surrey today than there were in queen elizabeth the first reign good gracious and here we are in winter i love this time of the year and it's a time when all the trees are shutting down they need to prepare themselves for winter this is their rest period get rid of the leaves get rid of the leaves they know that it's going to get frosty so they have bark that acts like an insulation jacket like a coat but some trees like the conifers keep most of their leaves in winter there is a tree that's one of my favorite trees the u tree it's uh one of only three british native conifers in the british isles and i love it because it's still very active in winter and it has this amazing sap that will tolerate temperatures down to minus 35 degrees because it has almost a built-in antifreeze in the leaves that that stop the leaves from freezing and allow it to keep to keep growing what appreciate i haven't got one here well i know a really really good u tree not far from here um that's very old full of character it's a beautiful tree oh i'd love to see it apparently the u is 140 million years old so it's europe's most ancient tree walking through a you forest always feels mysterious and tony tells me there's a good reason [Music] their leaves are poisonous to humans and some people say they've experienced hallucinations amongst these magical trees to show me one of these wonderful use tony's brought me to a local churchyard [Music] so yews are often found beside old churches so judy i've brought you here to see this this tree which is a favorite of mine in surrey oh my word however old is it it's probably 1500 years old it's so ancient it only grows at a hundredth of an inch a year but it has a girth of more than 30 feet so it's seen quite a lot of activities with a little door to go inside not to touch oh look at this little gate it's hollow inside if we go around the side you can see in and uh beautiful should we go around this side yeah oh how fun and it's still it still shows the form of of you of the old view you know look at the whole bar and this is all living around 1820 i think it was hollowed out by the landlord of the local pub so he could get some chairs in here and a table when they hollowed it out this is what they found in it oh you're joking we can't okay yeah oh my goodness probably from the civil war must be lodged lodged in you know in one of these halls isn't that amazing gracious that's so heavy oh most people assume that the ewe was planted by the church yes i did well actually this church was built by the youth so the old views like this so this predates the church and this was a revered tree by the druids and the pagans so they would come and worship this tree because it was a sign of longevity prosperity yeah [Music] already i've learned so much trees live on a completely different time scale to us i'm told the oldest tree in the world is over 5000 years old now having met tony there's somebody who knows about trees absolutely so all those things that you kind of suppose you know and you think you know i'm going to get them all answered properly now i'm told about it and i shall give up acting and lecture on trees i expect quite soon probably [Music] i love that moment when you realize that winter is coming to an end and spring is bursting through dormice sense the leaves around them are warming up and open their eyes for the first time in months along with bats and hedgehogs these little creatures are the only british animals that hibernate and for me a sure sign of spring is when i see thousands of wood ants building their huge nests [Music] [Applause] but i want to know what's happening to my trees in the spring how are they preparing for the longer warmer days [Music] i'm meeting alex metcalf in nara wood in surrey he wants to show me what's going on under a tree's skin in spring when you're thinking about spring this is the kind of day you imagine look at that isn't that wonderful alex has brought an ingenious invention of his so we're going to have a look at this step very carefully here around the blue belt yep oh oh fantastic beautiful old tree so what i want to show you is this uh device here that allows us to explore a bit more about what's going on just behind the bark here what is that so this is something this is a this is a tree listening device and it allows us to hear what's going on just behind the bark okay so can you hear anything can you hear anything very faintly so there's a there's a deep rumble yes yeah so that's that's the that's the the inner workings of the trees that's the tree vibrating oh i say but alex has another magic trick in his box to help me hear even more right so now i'm going to plug it into here i can give you those headphones and now we're going to place it back on the tree so now we can hear more clearly there's just the rumbling sound oh yes very very clearly can you hear anything else in the background to the rumble every now and again a little blip like a little popping sound yes so that little popping sound is that little popping sound is the sound of the water traveling up from the roots all the way through the thousands of tiny little tubes called xylem tubes just behind the bark as the water goes up to the leaves the tree like this will drink around 200 liters of water a day so that's equivalent of say two full baths full of water so there's a huge amount of water traveling up inside this tree well oh it's riveting it's wonderful [Music] so trees get thirsty just like us and when we know how to listen to trees we can hear them quenching their first from you i have been absent in the spring when proud pied april dressed in all his trim has put a spirit of use in everything [Music] now i've heard the rush of water surging up under the bark i know they're fully awake and ready for action [Music] but i've also noticed that spring is when they start attracting the wrong sort of attention i'm taking tony to look at one of my favorite trees a young oak that michael and i and our daughter finty planted for my grandson sammy but unfortunately it's looking a bit frayed at the edges is it all right there's some feeding damage here there's somebody in munchies it's just the caterpillar munching away on them by the looks of things just the end of it yeah and can you see how they've gone between the they've left the mid-rib which is like if you imagine a cabbage and you eat you prefer the bit in between the so you eat round the thick bits they they're choosy very choosy yeah you go for the softer pieces which are probably more tasty i wonder if my tree can feel anything when there's a caterpillar invasion and also can it do anything about it there's so much more going on in trees than i'd ever imagined so i suspect my tree might be able to sense when it's under attack tony thinks oxford university scientist christina visakovi can help to solve the mystery so this is your office yeah what an incredible structure in the middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere then right christine is it one on one on the left yeah one of the times if you go first enough you'd never believe this beautiful treetop office is just outside oxford in white and woods wow this is absolutely amazing [Music] it's like an elephant forest but we're in the top of the canopy it's a tolkien-like this 40-foot high walkway is where christina is exploring whether a tree can sense when it's under attack so we're looking for a leaf with damage on christina oh there you go there there christina's machine works by measuring photosynthesis the amount of carbon dioxide that the leaf is breathing in and if the damaged leaf slows down its breathing christina's machine will pick it up we can have a look of the of the actual rate from this monitor here i'm sure if you can see but right here it's recording how much the leaf is taking and how much how much is it yes that's a quite low number the leaves that are eaten by these caterpillars they drop their photosynthetic rate and what i find really interesting is that this effect also spreads to the surrounding leaves so even if the caterpillar is just eating one leaf i can see the same effect in the leaves surrounding that one leaf so the tree is is talking to itself yeah and sending signals from the damaged leaf to the other leaves to beware insects about so sammy's oak does sense an insect attack and tony says some trees can take defending themselves a step further they fight back so there are some tree species like the common beach and she can sense when raw deer are grazing on her from the saliva from the rhodia really and very quickly can increase the tanning levels in the leaf so the leaf tastes very bitter uh and sour to the taste um which means the rhodium stops grazing on them yeah what's more tony tells me that when some trees are overwhelmed by an attack they can call in outside help this is a pine forest and pines often come under attack from aphids multiplied in incredible rate so a single aphid in a year could give rise to around 600 billion aphids 600 600 billion you know they're up to no good don't you you do tony's had a graphic made to show how trees fight back against the aphids the trees are under attack from aphids so what the tree can do it needs help needs to bring in the cavalry and this is an invisible cloud that the trees are sending out apparently the cloud is a strong perfume the tree releases it when it's under attack and it attracts a mini superhero and the ladybird can smell this cloud it can sense this cloud and it knows that there is food there here they are launching off flying away to the pine to feed on the aphids so ladybirds are sensitive to that cloud emitted by the pine as that to a shark to the smell of blood in the sea it's wonderful that nature's got an answer to all the problems isn't it it's quite reassuring it is very reassuring yes it's only when we come along as man yeah so we've got to protect indeed [Music] definitely [Music] so not all insects are harmful to trees for some trees it's quite the opposite this is the orchard close to my house it's just gorgeous at this time of year when the blossom is out and it's buzzing with insects well they all look very healthy don't they they certainly do they're wonderful that's wonderful it's beautiful it's beautiful isn't it yes actually if you smell it i could smell something i could thought i could i'm told that bees will travel six miles to get to flowers like these they're after the nectar but as they drink pollen brushes onto their backs and when the bee visits another tree the pollen drops off and the flower is fertilized here we are oh look how wonderful how wonderful is that but if you look underneath you see these look little tiny pears just developing well i look forward to the pears but all pollinated by insects yes they've used bees [Music] but trees are so clever some have evolved other ways to pollinate since they can't move they use something that can the wind [Music] one of them is the scots pine in spring it releases thousands of tiny pollen grains into the air the grains can travel 100 miles on the wind until some of them land on these little flowers sometimes they even form vast pollen clouds like this one above a you forest these clouds can be so dense they've been mistaken for forest fires [Music] and a few months later these fertilized flowers will become pine cones containing tiny seeds which float off in the breeze but the fruit of many trees is too heavy to be carried on the wind they need a friendly courier to find them the perfect spot to germinate david has brought me to his wildlife center to show me the ideal messenger it's one of his favorite animals they'll come he's passionate about saving these endangered creatures here he comes okay there you go there you are two little bits and then he'll sit and eat it well if you give him a whole nut he'll just take it away very very good the red squirrel population has shrunk by 90 percent since gray squirrels were introduced nearly 150 years ago so david is helping to reintroduce them around britain all squirrels are important to how trees spread their seeds very very pretty to look at and these wonderful tufts at the end of their ears and the way they keep their balance the tail like grey squirrels they gather the nuts and bury them for the winter but they don't have the best memory they get food they bury it and then they forget where it is so you get a plant you put a tree what could be better than that [Music] it's been a wonderful spring but now the days are getting longer and warmer and i can't wait to find out what happens next with my trees [Music] so this is the time of year i love most i just adore it at the heart of my garden stands this incredible oak it towers over everything else and it's one of my favorite trees i've asked tony if we can uncover some of its secrets and we're going to start by working out its age [Music] so judy shall we measure your tree yes and see roughly how old it is look at it it's isn't it magnificent oh it's lovely it's gonna give him a rough guide is if we measure the circumference yeah at breast height yeah and a good guide is for every inch is a year well i think we have to do that well i've got some string oh that's good and i hope it's going to be long enough because it's a big tree and we'll we'll we'll measure it okay so if i give you how are you going to get round i'm going to i'm going to go this way are you and um if you can hold it in one spot yeah and then and i'll thread this through i'll be back i'll be back i'll be back in about a week okay if you hand me that i can take it yeah are you all right yep okay here we are here we are okay good so now we need to measure that this piece of string [Music] one yard two yards three yards four yards where's this five yards and eighteen inches i should think so five times thirty-six the calculator out obviously maths isn't tony's strong point or mine right five times 36 15. plus 18 is 198. so it's 200 years old oh good for him what a lovely thing to find out my oak might just have started growing when wellington won the battle of waterloo in 1815 but finding out its age is just the beginning i want to know what other secrets my oak hoes at this time of year tony has invited dr matt disney to my garden to reveal some of my oak's summer secrets he scans trees all over the world to explore exactly how they help the planet and he's made me a three-dimensional model of my garden as we come through the gate come into the clearing look the pavilion so we have the summer house here and all the other trees around the outside you can see your oak through the clearing there so we stripped away all the other trees from our three-dimensional picture and we're left with your splendid oak here so one of the things that we can do is we can estimate how many leaves there are on your tree would you like to have a guess i couldn't begin to guess so we reckon there are about 260 000 leaves on your tree so that's about three tennis courts worth of leaf area i'm told that all those leaves are helping the tree to breathe in more carbon dioxide which it will then use to grow more branches so the other thing we can do we can measure how long the branches are in your tree so over the course of our work over the last few years we've been all across the tropics and we've scanned somewhere between 10 and 15 000 trees in total and so far we've we've found trees that are a lot taller one of the biggest trees we found was in ghana and that tree had nearly nine kilometers of branches and when we saw that we thought wow that's amazing nine kilometers of branches your tree's bigger than that your tree has 12 kilometers of branches in it a prize tree indeed so far that's our that's our longest branched tree is it i'm very very proud of it [Music] all those branches my oak must be a very healthy tree and in 200 years my tree must have breathed in a lot of carbon dioxide just the wood alone weighs about 25 tons so that's how much carbon is stored in in your tree there so by hoovering up all that harmful carbon dioxide in the summer my oak must be helping the planet matt wants to show me this map of the world we're looking at how the levels of carbon dioxide seen in red change over the seasons so in winter the photosynthesis slows down and the levels of co2 in the atmosphere go up so here we are coming towards summer and you'll see the levels of co2 in the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere start going down as the trees start drawing down that co2 from the atmosphere so matt you can tell me absolutely finally that my tree is helping the planet absolutely it's riveting it's riveting isn't it i would like that there forever just that picture of it very very proud of my tree doing all that work and here am i going about thinking i'm so hard worked and everything look what it's doing my oak in the garden and all the others actually they want them to feel left out [Music] shall i compare thee to a summer's day thou art more lovely and more temperate rough winds do shake the darling buds of may and summer's lease have all too short a date sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines and often is his gold complexion dimmed and every fair from fair sometime declines by chance or nature's changing course untrimmed my other passion is shakespeare in 60 years i've been in over 30 of his plays many of which involve woodland and nature tony's heading off to explore how trees like mine shaped shakespeare's world and i want to examine how they feature in his plays since i was really a little little girl it was taken just to see my brothers in shakespeare at saint peter's school in york that's all i wanted to do is to be in those plays and learn as much as i could about them and about him i'm on box hill in surrey brushing up on my knowledge with shakespeare expert dr charlotte scott one of the things i think that's unique about shakespeare is that he was brought up in a rural environment but actually made his living in an urban environment so he's one of the few playwrights i think of his generation who actually could bring that kind of local rural knowledge exactly to the kind of city landscape so tell me what was the first shakespeare part that you ever played ophelia not many trees not enough children we did a production of as you like it at the vic in about 1958 and alec mccann played touchstone simply wonderfully and you know that line said this is the forest of arden and i remember he came and said so this is the porridge department you used to get much marvelous life massive disappointment often shakespeare's woods are full of menace and magic but charlotte reminds me that they're also full of romance because of course you're remembering as you like it the trees were so central not only to the entire action of the play but also to the way in which orlando communicates his love for rosalind yeah i think he pinned them up on he does he does exactly he pins love letters and it turns out that these love messages are still to be found today so these are called arbor glyphs and they have an ancient and very very long history of tree carving as forms of communication but also i think as pictorial symbols as what did you say it was called arbor glyphs arbor glyphs oh that's wonderful it is yeah and it's ancient ancient art that's practiced i think for thousands of years in terms of not only as you said messages but also artworks you know notes sort of forms of reminders much nicer isn't just signing your your name on them you know yeah on a bit of the tower of london that's it's an early tattoo isn't it yes i suppose it is and you wonder if these tell stories of people who were married or you know proposals that some that somehow this moment in this woodland marked something they wanted to remember forever and they come back and see it yeah well it's lovely when it's like that and doesn't actually harm the tree yes no exactly and it would go eventually too it will disappear and the story will end yes [Music] i've talked to charlotte about the magic of shakespeare now tony is discovering how trees like mine and especially my magnificent oak were so important to the tudors hiya chris really good to see you good to see you too he's meeting archaeologist chris dobbs to explore the greatest wooden treasure that survives from the tudor age so here we are coming into the mayro ship hall oh my goodness that is absolutely incredible it's henry viii's warship the mary rose so half of it was eroded on the seabed but this is the ship that henry viii ordered the building off in 1509 the sheer amount of timber that's in it there's quite a few trees there [Music] it is beautiful isn't it and it's beautiful because of those curves it was uh supposed to be very fast this beautiful ship was about 130 feet long it was the first specially commissioned warship built by henry viii it marks the birth of the royal navy which helped forge the largest empire the world has ever known and what actually happened to her well she fought for henry viii in three wars against the french but sadly in 1545 capsized and sank in front of the king's eyes there were 35 survivors but probably over 500 men on board so i mean a great tragedy of the time parts of it to elm but the frame is made from 600 oak trees that's about 40 acres of woodland and i suppose when they built this they had to get as much timber the shape of the ship that they could with because they couldn't work it in the 16th century they could easily find these wonderful curved timbers to build the ship from it's amazing really isn't it because although they've shaped them all they've done is squared off those branches but retain that that joint is the tree that it's not being changed in any way apart from flattening down and i love that you say they've retained the shape that's absolutely what this ship is it's built out of the curves of the tree the natural curves of the trees basically they all built the ship on the mary rose almost everything was made of wood from the simplest object to the most advanced technology what i really want to show you is this tiny thing here can you guess what that is i mean it is absolutely wonderful no idea it looks like a a chess piece or a dress yeah it looks like a draft piece doesn't it but that is actually a pocket sundial and i've got a replica of one in my pocket so what you'd have to do is you'd have to get it out oriented for north south then you'd have to see where the shadow is cast on the dial i mean this just shows it was a very much a wooden society even their pocket sundials were made of wood you know i'm absolutely blown away this is a floating forest tony has brought some things from the great tudor warship to show me accompanying him is conservator simon ware judy how are you see you great yeah it's been uh it's been quite a while isn't it it's been a long time wow look at this so this is a you longbow that was brought up from the mary rose isn't that amazing of course one of your great friends robert robert would have handled this he would have looked at this and he's only just died and yeah isn't that incredible robert hardy was a very dear actor friend of mine in 1960 i played catherine to his wonderful henry v he was also the greatest expert on the english longbow and conserved all the longbows found on the mary rose i remember him telling me that this was the machine gun it was of medieval was of course but the bow isn't the only thing tony's brought with him what is this this is a knitcomb what is that oh a knit comb isn't that amazing this belonged to a member of the crew so they they would have had their own comb for removing headlights and i think if we look in the light you may actually be able to see some of the little remains of the nets and the headlights still in there and those fine teeth along there yes that's absolutely incredible it's amazing that wood was once so crucial to an entire society [Music] i've learned so much about what my trees do in summer they're such sophisticated individuals but just how social are they do they communicate i hope autumn will give me the chance to find out [Music] the changing colors of the leaves show my trees are hard at work preparing for winter their green pigment is sucked back and stored safely under the bark for next year the tree transfers unwanted toxins into the leaves which it jettisons to keep it healthy but the impression that everything is shutting down is deceptive [Music] this is when the janitors that keep the woodland clean set to work the secretive scary slime mold roams the forest floor hunting down microscopic debris to eat and then there's another astonishing woodland caretaker probably the single most important part of a woodland but you never know it there's a lot of life and action still going on underground in a woodland so if you look here you see all this fungi these are the fungi that break down that woody matter that many other creatures are incapable of breaking down almost at a certain almost almost we're almost in the center we're almost in the center of it yes this type of fungi is called a decomposer because it breaks down woody matter and turns it into nutrients in the soil just the tip of the iceberg so there's so much more action going on underground here apparently all these fungi have long threads like roots running through the earth sometimes for miles we've got some amazing footage here and these are the threads here of fungi and they're coming they're looking for dead wood yes and they've found this branch it's dead branches and that's sending a signal back to start this is quickened out this is quick and dark yes yeah i don't know how many times he's saying i've found dead wood come and come and get it and on all these other threads have come in and enveloping this this dead wood good efforts by breaking that wood down it then makes it available as organic matter for the tree to feed on so it's it's it's recycling it the fungi are the best recyclers it's amazing isn't it absolutely but i've got something even better to show you this has never been filmed for television before this is called hair eyes and as the fungi starts to decompose this is a waste product it pushes the water out from the wood as it breaks it down and because we're in autumn as the first frosts appear it freezes and crystallizes this water that comes out so this is this is ice isn't that incredible so beautiful it is beautiful i never knew autumn was such an important time of year for my trees and tony tells me that there's another type of fungi that doesn't decompose dead wood instead it may do something even more astonishing it might just allow the entire forest to interact in this beautiful beach forest i'm meeting fungi expert professor lynn boddy she's going to tell me what's going on beneath our feet this is pretty this forest is very pretty it's lovely apparently in forests like these a special type of fungus attaches itself to the very tips of the tree's roots now this happens on an incredibly tiny scale so we're going to have a look at um magnified images let's have a computer oh i say so what we can see here is one of the fine roots of the tree this is underground this is all underground and you can see these very fine threads extending into into the soil this is the fungus these threads build up and up until they cover the tip of the root completely like a sock and from there they spread out under the forest floor these below ground fungi are not just attached to one tree they can be attached to several so communication can occur yes the threads are they attached to different types of trees they don't just stick to one type of tree no that's right some fungi are only found on one species of tree one type of tree but other fungi can join up lots of different trees and if for example this tree here was being attacked by a swarm of insects not only does it send the messages within itself it can send those same messages through the underground network to adjacent trees that's this it's amazing i know so beneath our feet there is a huge network plus there's there's such a lot going on there is that is staggering and not only do they send messages but they can also share food and water to another tree somewhere else what a brilliant system it is it's evolved over millions hundreds of millions of years lynn tells me that these fungal threads for both the communicators and the decomposers are so numerous that she can easily find some oh my goodness me can you see this one look at the size of this so there are lots and lots of fine oh my goodness threads joined together here this is going to be a huge network look at this in fact i wouldn't be surprised if the whole woodland isn't connected up by this isn't it look at it no it's like a power line isn't it look how strong that is knowing that all these trees are using fungi to communicate with each other i'll never think of trees as individuals again a forest like this is a very very social place everybody is sharing and passing everything to everybody else yeah and sustaining everybody yes that was just mind-blowing yeah they're remarkable organisms aren't they aren't they just [Music] that time of year thou mayest in me behold when yellow leaves or none or few do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold bear ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang it's been wonderful to discover that my trees aren't just amazing individuals but that they are part of an extended family when i plant trees in memory of my friends i always hoped that they would feel part of a community that they would be communicating with each other [Music] and now it's so reassuring to find out that it's true i think it might be time to add another member to the family tony has arranged to meet david and me in my garden there's a famous chinese proverb the best time to plant a tree was 50 years ago but the next best time is today so what better time than today to uh to plant a tree so the two trees that i've brought you are english natives british natives so one's a yew tree and one's an oak tree which are going to be around for a long time what a great song i'm going to do this one as it's a yew tree robert hardy i thought you'd choose that that would be so people love that oh how lovely and maybe in another three or four hundred years time someone might be making a longbow from one of its branches you never know should we take them yeah oh you're going to take them yeah we're going to find out they're quite heavy they're okay i hope i should make my mind up quickly david the nearer the better yeah maybe here yeah just in just in here with that as a that is the background yes i think it's a lovely a good place yeah the soil in my garden is a mixture of sand and clay and tony says my you will be very happy here that's gonna be just right [Music] how fantastic god [Music] oh that is so nice oh i'm so pleased how appropriate isn't it it's perfect it's absolutely perfect i have loved trees all my life but after this year i'll never be able to look at them in the same way again [Music] i shall never be able quite to walk so nonchalantly through a woodland again without thinking of all that incredible work that is going on under here well i mean we think we're we live in a society no comparison to what goes on around here how these chaps live i mean it's mind-blowing it's wonderful and very very exciting i don't know how i've lived so long without knowing but i know now [Music] me [Music] oh you

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