Veterans- The ultimate survivors

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I bloody well love trees i do !!

 

well your in the right place!

 

an I's bloody luvs em too I's do:lol:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

 

 

 

 

[Fungus]

Nice veteran survivors :thumbup1: .

[David Humphries]

Where is it Tony ?

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Besides the green (cricket) Chipperfield (bovingdon) there are a few of these old sativas scattered amoungst the younger trees, and lots of really nice stem fractures union failures on Oaks too, well worth a look, even if its not obvious at first.

[Tom D]

Europe's oldest olive tree, estimated to be around 3000 years old. I happened to be staying close by on holiday in Crete last week. Amazingly its a graft, a heavier fruiting variety on a wild root stock , not daft those Minoans.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Europe's oldest olive tree, estimated to be around 3000 years old. I happened to be staying close by on holiday in Crete last week. Amazingly its a graft, a heavier fruiting variety on a wild root stock , not daft those Minoans.

 

awesome tree Tom, thanks for posting.

 

and poeple laugh when I saw arboriculture is an ancient art going back thousands of years, heres the proof.

 

and it isnt an isolated case:thumbup1:

[Fungus]

Europe's oldest olive tree, estimated to be around 3000 years old. I happened to be staying close by on holiday in Crete last week. Amazingly its a graft, a heavier fruiting variety on a wild root stock , not daft those Minoans.

 

I saw this magnificent tree years ago, but made the pictures with an old fashioned analog camera unsuited for reproducing and uploading.

If you ever go to Cyprus, you can find there the tallest and oldest Lebanon ceder accompagnied by the oldest Mimosa tree leaning against the defense tower of a destroyed castle annex to a cane sugar factory founded and exploited by the Knight templars in the 15th century, of which I only have old fashioned photo's and negatives too .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I saw this magnificent tree years ago, but made the pictures with an old fashioned analog camera unsuited for reproducing and uploading.

If you ever go to Cyprus, you can find there the tallest and oldest Lebanon ceder accompagnied by the oldest Mimosa tree leaning against the defense tower of a destroyed castle annex to a cane sugar factory founded and exploited by the Knight templars in the 15th century, of which I only have old fashioned photo's and negatives too .

 

nothing wrong with old photos and slides gerrit:thumbup1:

[Fungus]

nothing wrong with old photos and slides

 

Oh well, so here's a scan of a snap shot of the Lebanon cedar and the Mimosa tree on Cyprus taken years ago from quite some distance.

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