Smits’ first encounter with these “magic trees” as he calls them, was during his marriage proposal to his wife in Indonesia in 1980. “The dowry was six sugar palms, not gold!” ...

Trees are sentinels of time. Some of the trees in our rainforest are over a thousand years old, others are giants among the canopy, towering 80m high – the equivalent of a 30-storey building ...

Oh, Christmas tree, for as long as we can remember we've marvelled at "how lovely are your branches". But our love affair with you seems to have hit a rough patch. Between seven and eight million ...

NAOMI WILKINSON:Just reading one of my favourite stories, The Magic Faraway Tree. It's a book about three children, Joe, Beth and Franny, who take their cousin, Rick, to an enchanted wood near ...