Soil compaction good for trees

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

We have trees like that on a local shoot my dad and i go to. We even have one known as the lightning tree as it was struck 8 times during the day. It is surrounded by crops but we know for a fact the estate left a 10 metre circle around it as not to damage the root system as it was a 450 year old knarly old thing. When it was hit it was riddled with Beefsteak and Chicken of the Woods, yet it plugged on with no problems till the lightning strikes. It is now a roosting, breeding and brooding site for Lesser and Greater Horseshoe Bats!!. I shall try and get some pictures of it.

 

I will only repeat monkleys sentiment, that is a tree i would LOVE to see.

[Matthew Arnold]

I shall try and get some pictures of it. Its a bit out of the way on one of the drive but there is a footpath that runs about 5 metres away from it.

[David Humphries]

In your own time Matt.

We're a patient lot.

 

I've waited for a shot or two from various people for a couple of years on here before

 

 

 

 

 

 

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