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This is a grove for Alun. He left us on the 26th June 2018 at 52.
He often told me a story about a man that wandered about planting a forest of trees. It touched him, so much.
He said he has always wanted to plant a whole forest himself. He would love this.
Help me to keep a dream alive by planting a tree in his honour.
I love to think about his spirit living here in a wild forest.
Love Colleen x
Donations
1 tree
I loved you now, I loved you then , I will love you forever ❤️. 7 years apart untill we meet again my love. Rest well. Your wife xxDonated by Colleen
26/06/2025
1 tree
Alun, I'm sitting here at Belfairs Woods thinking about you. Remembering our life together and those wonderful walks with all the dogs. Lexi is still here over 16 but she may be with you soon. I hope where you are your spirit is free. I'm planting another tree in your grove today. I loved you then, I love you now, I will love you forever. Colleen xxxDonated by Colleen, your wife
10/06/2025
1 tree
Alun , my love, my brother. In life we treasured each other now our spirits are free together among the trees. Love always your sister Berni... xxx 😘Donated by Bernadette
01/07/2024
1 tree
Alun , my love. No words can express how much you are missed. You were my true love and still remain a part of me. When I bring you to mind I feel the love between us. For the 6th anniversary apart but in my ❤️ forever. Colleen xxxDonated by Colleen
01/07/2024
1 tree
Darling Alun, in life you were my soul mate and that hasn't changed because I can't see you. I miss you so much. I hope you are in a better place and now Berni and your mum are with you too. I love you. Until we meet again. All my love. Colleen X ( your wife in life )Donated by Colleen
01/01/2024
1 tree
Dearest Ali, now our trees grow together and i can feel you even more my love. Your sister Berni xxDonated by Berni
27/06/2023
1 tree
Alun my love, where are you? Five years since i held your habd. I wish i could be with you again to walk and talk through the woods. We laughed didn't we. I miss you so. We didn't have an easy time but we won the love lottery as you would say. It's so hard here without you. Please look after Berni she loves you Love your wife ColleenDonated by Colleen
27/06/2023
1 tree
Darling, Berni can't buy you trees now so i need to do it for her. She loves you so. I can only cope hoping you are together..i wish i could be with you both again just to be together and talk. Berni would say something wise. All i can say is she loved you darling as much as me. Happy birthday. From berni xxxDonated by Berni
13/06/2023
1 tree
You will always be in my heart Alun. It's another birthday and you aren't here..i miss you every day. I hope berni is with you , i miss you both. Life is not the same .i am not the same. I love you Alun xxx your wife XxxDonated by Colleen
13/06/2023
1 tree
Hello sweetheart, Berni is with you now..take care of her..she loves you so. I miss you both and wish i could see you both..i am happy to think you are together with Jeb, Pelly, Cham and honey. I love and miss you Al xxx Colleen xx lexi says woofDonated by Colleen
23/02/2023
1 tree
I am sitting here at the start of 2023 thinking of you. I wish i could talk to you again and hear your laugh. I miss you so much every day. Love you forever Colleen xxxDonated by Colleen
01/01/2023
1 tree
How can it be four years since you passed away. I wish we could still walk and talk through belfairs woods. I miss you and those days we all had together. Still loving you and thinking of you every day. Love Colleen and Lexi xxxDonated by Colleen
26/06/2022
1 tree
Happy birthday Al, there are no words for how sad life is without you. I miss you and hope one day I will be in your company again. Lexi is having a blast would make you smile darling. All my love ColleenDonated by Colleen
10/06/2022
3 trees
Dearest Alun, I have moved to a spot that sits by a grove of trees and wonder if the trees in your grove and mine know each other as family even though miles apart. XDonated by Bernadette
25/05/2022
2 trees
Hey babe 2022 is just another year without you here. Know you are in my heart every day and counting the days to meet again xxx all my love your wife Colleen xxDonated by Colleen
16/01/2022
2 trees
Thinking of you and decided to say ‘hello’ with a tree or two.Donated by Bernadette
07/01/2022
1 tree
Happy Anniversary love, this year is 7 years since we got married and not a day goes by that I do not think of you. I miss you so very much , Love ColleenDonated by Colleen
27/12/2021
1 tree
Alun I miss you now more than ever and wish we were together again. Time passes yet I miss you more each day x love your wife Colleen xxDonated by Colleen
27/12/2021
1 tree
We talk about them not because we are stuck and haven’t moved on, but we talk about them because we are theirs and they are ours and no passage of time will ever change that. Scribbles and crumbs. 3 years have passed and the love between us keeps growing dear Ali. XDonated by Bernadette
27/06/2021
2 trees
Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth who has set thy glory above the heavens...when I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained...what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him?Donated by Connie
27/06/2021
1 tree
Thinking of you sweetheart x three years today. All my love forever Colleen xxDonated by Colleen
26/06/2021
4 trees
Trees are poems the Earth writes on the sky. Kahil Gibran. You are a poem that life wrote on my heart. Happy Birthday Ali. XDonated by Bernadette
12/06/2021
1 tree
Happy Birthday darling. The world was so much better with you in it. You made me laugh and feel loved so much and I always think of you and feel you all around me. Love Colleen and Lexi xxDonated by Colleen
10/06/2021
2 trees
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson. Your being is still the most present things in this world to me Ali. Love ColleenDonated by Colleen
23/04/2021
3 trees
He that plants trees loves others besides himself. Thomas Fuller. Happy earth day Ali, your love is still felt.Donated by Bernadette
22/04/2021
2 trees
Dearest Ali, your dream is still helping to rewild the world...what a gift. Happy Rewilding day and Happy Equinox. Love Berni. XDonated by Bernadette
20/03/2021
1 tree
Miss you mate, love you loads. Mum xDonated by Mum
01/01/2021
2 trees
2021 is here and you are not. I miss you darling evermore.
I love you. Colleen xDonated by Colleen
01/01/2021
2 trees
I loved your face, I loved your hair,
Your t shirts and your evening wear,
As for the world, the job, the war,
I ditched them all to love you more.
And now you’re gone, and now you’re gone, as if there ever was a you,
Who broke my heart and made it new,
Who’s moving on? Who’s kidding who? L.Cohen
Happy Anniversary Col and Ali. XDonated by Bernadette
23/12/2020
3 trees
"I sustain myself with the love of family." Maya Angelou.
Bernadette, Ali and Colleen created a loving and stable family. So I plant a tree each in honour of that loving bond and in support of Mother Earth. xxxDonated by Bernadette
13/08/2020
2 trees
For my beautiful son. I miss you mate every single day. Love you to the stars and back son. Mum xxDonated by Mum, Iris..
25/06/2020
2 trees
How can it be 2 years Al, it feels like yesterday and an eternity. Nothing feels the same without you to share it with. Until we meet again. More trees for you darling. Love Colleen xxDonated by Colleen
25/06/2020
1 tree
Green was the silence, wet was the light. The month of June trembled like a butterfly. Pablo Neruda. Happy solstice my love, I feel we are rebuilding this forest together for Mother Earth, and for me, your presence lives on. xxxDonated by Bernadette
21/06/2020
1 tree
Happy birthday sweetheart. Another year, another tree. Still wishing you were here with me. Time is passing and my love for you still grows. ColleenDonated by Colleen
11/06/2020
1 tree
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord and puts down deep roots into our being. Victor Hugo. The love you brought into the world is still flourishing. Happy birthday my love. xxDonated by Bernadette
08/06/2020
1 tree
The leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nation.Donated by Connie
27/03/2020
1 tree
In this Spring time on Earth when the resurrection energies are abound, Me Colleen and darling Ali are participating in resurrecting an ancient forest. Happy Easter Ali. xDonated by Bernadette
27/03/2020
1 tree
There are some who bring a light so great to the world. Even after they have gone, the light remains. Happy Easter ColleenDonated by Bernadette
27/03/2020
2 trees
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams. Pablo Neruda,.....from ColleenDonated by Colleen
22/12/2019
2 trees
And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. ... I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. ... Love you always Colleen xxDonated by Colleen
21/12/2019
1 tree
O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good. His mercy endureth forever.Donated by Connie
21/12/2019
1 tree
Then shall the trees sing out at the presence of the LordDonated by Connie
21/12/2019
1 tree
For Col and Am on 5th AnniversaryDonated by Connie
21/12/2019
5 trees
This is love: to fly towards a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally to take a step without feet. 5 years- WOOD.Donated by Berni
12/12/2019
4 trees
This was the day you came into my life 53 years ago- You are a beautiful son and I am so proud of you.
Love you and miss you forever.
Happy birthday son.
Mum
Donated by Mum
10/06/2019
2 trees
Happy birthday darling. You are missed every single day.
We all love you and your life still
blesses us all the time with memories and laughter.
Peace to you. Colleen x
more trees for your forest...
Donated by Colleen
10/06/2019
1 tree
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.He makes me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
Remembering you on your birthday Alun.
Love Connie. X
Donated by Connie
09/06/2019
7 trees
Happy Birthday Alun, You blessed and were loved by your extended family,
Cham, Lassie, Jeb, Pelly, Honey, Ozzie and Lexi.
You are all wild spirits who found
Donated by Bernadette
08/06/2019
1 tree
Donated by Phil Burdett
25/04/2019
1 tree
Donated by Phil Burdett
25/03/2019
1 tree
Donated by Phil Burdett
25/02/2019
1 tree
Donated by Phil Burdett
25/01/2019
1 tree
Donated by Phil Burdett
25/12/2018
1 tree
Every Christmas we would gather around your fake treewith the woodland creatures u put in its branches,
I wish we were doing that this year but
I like to think of your grove of real trees and animals
Donated by Bernadette
19/12/2018
1 tree
Donated by Phil Burdett
25/11/2018
1 tree
I miss you more each day. I hope you knew how loved you are.
You will never be forgotten.
Love your lady wife...Colleen xx
Donated by Colleen, thinking of you all the time xx
15/11/2018
4 trees
For a very special son, Alun.Love you to the stars and back.
Miss you every day.
Love mum and dad. Xxx
Donated by Mum, Iris Cook
15/11/2018
1 tree
Donated by Phil Burdett
25/10/2018
1 tree
Donated by Phil Burdett
25/09/2018
5 trees
Donated by Phil Pav
09/09/2018
1 tree
God has a garden there's love all around. There's healings and blessings on his glory ground.
Anonymous hymn.
Love Tadgh x
Donated by Tadgh
25/08/2018
1 tree
...on each side of the river stood the Tree of Life, bearing twelve crops of fruit,
yielding it's fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree are for healing the nation.
Revelation 22:2.
Love Connie
Donated by Connie
25/08/2018
1 tree
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Donated by Phil Burdett
21/08/2018
2 trees
Donated by R
14/08/2018
1 tree
"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.”
- to my friends, plant a tree here,
for Alun or just because you want to,
or Start your own grove. Love Colleen xx
Donated by Colleen
14/08/2018
1 tree
“There is always music amongst the trees…, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.”
― Minnie Aumonier (1865-1952).
Colleen
Donated by Colleen
14/08/2018
1 tree
Donated by Louise
11/08/2018
2 trees
Donated by Susan Brindle
11/08/2018
1 tree
Dearest Ali, you once told me when struggling to breath that oxygen was the greatest gift,
well you are now gifting the planet with more trees and more oxygen,
a beautiful dream becoming reality.
LOVE
Donated by Bernadette
10/08/2018
2 trees
Thanks for preserving the trees andhelping to make my sweethearts dream come true.
We don't have a lot so this is a lovely way
to do something he would love and keep adding each year.
Colleen
Donated by Colleen Mortensen
07/08/2018