On May 8, 4:41 pm, jl wrote:
In article ,
Way Back Jack wrote:

TV documentaries and travelogues reveal a lot of lush "green" in those
countrysides but a relative scarcity of trees. Is it climate? Too
windy in Ireland? Sheep and/or other livestock?

The Roe Valley has quite a few very nice woods, though a lot of the large
commercial forests are terrible and a scar on the countryside. Farmers
tended to fell trees everywhere except around their houses I think, hence
certain places have many fine old trees.

Our own house was build on the site of an old farm house and there must be
about sixty trees on our site, most of them near a hundred years old. Some
of them, particularly the ash trees are a wonderful sight.

They were planted as a windbreak, and do that job quite well.

Jochen

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A combination of Spanish Broom and Tree Lupin make an excellent local
windbreak (scented).

Donal