When you were a kid, you probably often heard your mother chiding that “money doesn't grow on trees” in an attempt to curb your expensive demands. If only you knew, you could have told her that money, in fact, does grow on trees. At least in England they do.
There are places in England where you can find trees with coins hammered and bent into the bark. Nobody knows for sure why people pushed coins into the trees. Some believe it brings good luck. Others believe that the amount of coins pushed in by an individual may result in them producing the same amount of children.
Money trees can be found all over Britain. All I need is a plane ticket... and a pair of pliers.
More money tree photos on this Flickr group
[via Trifter]
7 comments:
"Money trees can be found all over Britian", good god can they? I've lived in Britian, well England, for all my life and I've never heard of the things.
Likewise! I live near forest, never seen one of these on any walks though it, nor any other wooded areas I've visited.
Oh.. my.. God.
This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. It'd be magical to happen upon something like this. I live in the US, though.. so I don't think that'll be happening.
The tree hugger in me, though, makes me wonder what kind of harm this might cause or has caused the trees.
There is a tree like this along the woodland path at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire. I spotted it on a picnic with my family a couple of years ago we were all a bit puzzled by it but decided to try and add our own pennies, for the record banging pennies into a dead tree with a rock is not as easy as you might think. We gave up!
Wow .. quite interesting, hope someday we see this trend in PAKistan too
I have lived in England all my life walked in many woods and trails, spent too many hours reading blogs such as this Uphaa, odee etc and have never come across these tress before, but sure will do some research and post a definitive guide on my blog.
Pretty cool also would be a cool idea for garden art in someone's yard. As to it hurting the tree I think they only do it to trees that are already dead ?
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