Located in China’s Zhongnan Mountains, this astounding gingko tree has been standing for well over 1400 years. It has a huge canopy that creates an eruption of vibrant yellow leaves in autumn, raining down a massive carpet that transforms the ground.
Within the walls of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, the tree adds has a special zen quality to it throughout the seasons, but particularly in fall, where it commands reverence for nature.
Another example of how trees are magical.
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Dubai proudly boasts of it’s City of Gold. However, one needs to break a bank to acquire some of it and lock it up securely.
Zhongnan can blow it’s own trumpet about it’s ginkgo’s profusion of glittering gold, spread out in the open, free to help yourself.
And as Tom Jones sings, ‘the very best in life is free’
I am torn. I love how ginkgo trees’ leaves fall together as if in complete accord, but it would be wonderful if the yellow could stay on the tree for a little longer.