From where we`re standing Quercus Robur is a treasure to be discovered.
The Boabab. Could wax lryical about them for hours, they are such a form of beauty.
I was in heaven just over a year ago driving through the Boabab valley in Tanzania, thought to be one of the oldest valleys in the world. :):)
One unstarted project, is to go and photo a load of them and produce a coffee table book - suspect the market might be a bit small though.
Make a smaller table then 
Or visit a bigger market - from the pictures - these Christmas markets look like plenty of folk attend 
Not sure really. A good english oak, or perhaps a nice yew or willow tree.
Has to be the magnolia for me. Had one in the garden when I was a small kid, so it has personal associations as well as being a beautiful exotic tree.
The tree towards the top right . . . it’s French so has a good diet with interesting food . . . every day brings a new risk . . . it thinks to its self “will I be here tomorrow . . . ?” and it has an interesting view on life . . .
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omg where do i start !!!
my most favourite tree that i always love the feeling knwoing that i have actually been to the top of this tree is …
The Cedar of Lebanon that is located on the front lawn of Boston Manor gardens last recorded on The Tree Register as measuring 8.83 m around the multi-stemmed base, making it the largest of this type in Greater London. The tree possibly dates back to the early 1700s . You can see the top of it towering beside the Chiswick Flyover … Have laid on the top of the canopy and just watched london carry on as normal …
and then there is the Richmond London Plane http://www.treesforcities.org/page.php?id=181
if you are like minded visit this site to find locations of londons great trees
http://greattrees.treesforcities.org/page/history-great-trees-london-project/
one that always makes me smileis the tiny sycamore growing out of Colchester Castle
and yes it was me who put those lights on it
Another one in Colchester is the Horse Chesnut on St Martins Churchyard on East Hill. The Sheer Size of limbs just enthralled me
http://www.colchester.gov.uk/servedoc.asp?filename=horse_chestnut_st_martins.pdf
And The mighty Redwoods also in Colchester
and then theres some which are not so large but mean a lot.
such as these
why you ask … because these are some of the 135000 hardwood trees i have planted in the past 15 years across the Uk…
Cherry Blossom for me.
Unless you mean favourite tree to make stuff from in which case Teak looks lovely when finished properly…
If you guys like trees, check this out
I enjoy a good willow (not the film)
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Good work, TimR, blimey that’s a lot.
Elm trees, sadly missing from home. Scariest looking trees in winter, too. I think Brighton and Hove has some, that’s it in Blighty as far as I know.
I often have a good look at that when I’m passing. There’s quite a few I like but no expert with names, I just point and say hmmm that’s pretty
Prefer trees to a bush ;)
Redwoods for me, first trip away from home at the age of 10 with the school and we stayed near a place called Tylney Hall in Hampshire, they have a soft bark and its the first and only time i have ever hugged a tree
Like someone said “Where to start?”
It’s probably easier to list the few I hate like friggin Flowering Cherries except for the few days they are in blossom.
I suppose any decent tree in the right setting or any tree that, by any sensible reasoning, just should not be there is worth a vote.
Then there is the English Elm I miss but, if I have to plump, it’s mature Corkscrew Oak.
(And the tree hating vicar at my local church had a perfectly healthy one cut down as it was “diseased”. Bloody vandal.)
Shoe trees are my favourites
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Poui tree …great when it flowers and great to climb, grew up with one in my garden!
Our favourite one is the oak tree we buried the treasure under. Nina knows where it is but she can`t talk.
Wow.
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Is that a real photo
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Did you trim it to that shape???