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some of you may remember we propped this ancient Yew in early 2008, here is the same tree 5 years later, exactly what we hoped would happen, flourishing lower growth, and main branches still intact and surviving.

 

Was nice to visit the tree 5 years after the initial work and see the props in great condition -

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That's fantastic Tim, have to say I'm really impressed.

 

Yews are so resilient as a species and worth the effort to maintain.

 

They often do recover from what may seem like terminal vitality decline or structural weakness.

Just need some tlc and a whole lotta time.

 

The work may have added decades or not more to its retention

 

Cheers for the bump.

 

 

 

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Can you post again over the next 1000 years- see how the regrowth develops.

The tidy part of my brain would like to see all the top cut back to leave a bush. See how this pans out. The side I'm trying to develop wants to see beauty in the oddness of this tree. Personally I would like to have seen natural props or even make it weird by getting a heavy chain and welding all the links and using this as a prop. making an optical illusion of the branch being chained to the ground. The chain stopping the branch from flying off. Would have been a local talking point/ tourist draw.

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Here are à few pics from à local church ,the propt yew is suposed to be about à thousond years old. The interesting thing is about 200 years ago they dug à pit around it and moved it 50 ft on rollers, so they could exstend the church. The dates might not be exact .

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