Color challenge Thursday Green: Big willow tree
A big willow tree on the campus of the Australian National University, Canberra
This tree is next to the Chifley Library so many students like to sit under its shade to chat or read. It is also a place where people could gather to discuss group assignments.
I myself have sat under that willow. It is great to have a nice day and sit there (or under one of the other trees on the campus), or by Sullies Creek and read up for your next tute. ANU is a lovely campus and a great university. Maybe I spent a little too much time in the refectory, but heh.
Canberra = Best city in the world!
I have taken many photos of the tree but never sat under it! I love Sullivan's Creek too.
ANU has an awesome campus. Have you visited the Botanical Gardens, just up the hill (hill meaning Black Mountain of course)? It is absolutely beautiful and is well worth taking the time to occasionally wander up there just for a relaxing afternoon.
Yes I used to hike up Black Mountain on Saturday mornings going through the Botanical gardens.
Magical looking tree.
It would look amazing at dusk/dawn
never saw it at dawn, but at dusk, it glows a green colour if you stand to the east of it and catch the sun through the foliage. There are many willows like this on the campus. There were many more until the ACT government decided, in all its wisdom and at the urging of NSW, to declare them a noxious pest and cut most of them in the region down. This has led to toxic blooms of blue green algae being commonplace in Lake Burley Griffin which Sullivans Creek, which flows near this tree in the Law faculty, runs into. The willows used to absorb a lot of the nutrient on the inflow creeks and provide shade and habitat. Now the inflows are open to the sunlight and there is nothing to buffer water flow or to uptake nutrients.
Willows had an important place in the maintenance of the artificial environment we created and we then removed them. Go figure.
I agree it is magical! I hope they never chop it down to build something over it.
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