I have put together a blog for the biggest trees in my town and surrounds and would love to be able to put a book together one day(anyone had any book writing experience?)

Its a bit empty at the mo but I will add more as I get more trees photographed.
Darlington's Trees

A lovely start to your blog there!

Growing up in California, I had several opportunities to see the world's largest tree (actually, the world's largest living organism), the General Sherman Giant Sequoia.

Kingfisher

Lucky you.that is one impressive tree. Would love to visit it one day too.

If you like big trees, California is a great place to see them. Besides the General Sherman (which is in Southern California, but rather out of the way), there's also the Avenue of the Giants in Northern California.

http://www.aveofthegiants.com/

How big is the one you've mentioned in your blog?

Kingfisher

Not sure, it was not that easy to see the top, the tre was tucked away, yet on the edge near the road. I'd have to go back sometime and try and get some measurememnts, but I wouldnt be able to use the stick method cos I wouldnt be able to walk far back enough without being in the middle of the road ;0
I'm hoping to get some history on the trees in my area but so far, depsite numerous emails to council officials Ive got nowhere.

GreenLarry, I love the colour scheme of your blog, it looks great! It looks very interesting too, I'll definitely give it a read in the near future. It's an interesting question, how do you measure a trees height from close to it. There must be some sort of trigonometry you can use, unfortunately I've forgotten it all!

Well the normal way to measure a tree is to take a stick thats the same length of your arm,hold it in your hand with your arm outstretched and walk backwards until the top of the tree lines up with the top of the stick and the bottom of the tree lines up with the bottom of stick. Then measure the distance you've walked and that equals the trees height. Unfortunately if I'd tried that with the redwod i'd have got run over