00:00that's if it's the window you're looking for it yes it it is yeah because if you get down
00:06yeah so that that's the sort of thing that would make the really good story shall i
00:11i point to it up here and then liz you can point to it on there yes so um we
00:17discovered this tree
00:18when the forest team were out and about uh working with lizzie and peter on uh the trail to to
00:26uh
00:26link to the stories in each of the books and this crabapple tree is the only hollarded crabapple
00:33tree as far as we know in eppin forest and so it was the similarities between the picture here
00:39and the features with the tree was spotted from the is it the lard of the winery at the bottom
00:47with the drink sparrows yeah and then up through the the shape of the tree and up even to the
00:54gap
00:54up here which can be seen further up and it's it's testament really to her illustrations that
00:59we were able to recognize the tree out of all these thousands of trees here um and match up this
01:06illustration to the tree itself and the tree is over 300 years old probably a lot more but it's 50
01:12it's 50 years since she first roughly sketched this and photographed this we know that from the photographs
01:19that we got over in the visitor center in the in the exhibition the distinctive tree is believed to
01:26be the only known pollarded tree of its species in the forest standing near barn hoppitt and warren pond
01:33the area is known to have been a favorite walking and sketching spot for the celebrated illustrator
01:39and author jill barklam whose son and daughter visited the tree this week and confirmed that the shape
01:47setting and surrounding landscape fitted their mother's initial inspiration for the crab apple cottage
01:55in the brambly hedge books which center on a community of mice the inhabitants of the tree
02:02are mr and mrs apple sculptures of the pair can be found near the start of the brambly hedge
02:09themed trail in epping forest which was launched last october barklam who died in 2017 aged
02:1666 published the seasonal brambly hedge series in 1980 which has since sold more than seven million
02:26copies she would have spent a lot of time there so um yeah that gave us the clue that this
02:42would be the area to find sadly we haven't got the blossom out only because everything is about two or
02:48three weeks early and we were just talking about the whole idea of sustainability and so on which links into
02:54this
02:55but that's why the blossom isn't out because everything is now flowering early
02:59so
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