A few pics of Veterans and others from Savernake Forest

[arbwork]

A visit today in overcast conditions, if you go yourself take map, spare battery, big memory, sympathetic tree like company and a book of superlatives, you will run out of all of them! Fantastic place everywhere vets, mature pollards, decaying trunks left from 1990 storm and more lots more….. tbc.

[arbwork]

Some taken on sat p.m. with a little setting sun…

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

cracking shots, thanks for posting

[John Shutler]

savernake is an amazing place

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

savernake is an amazing place

 

argh that shots ruined by the bruiser in the blue shirt!

[roseyweb]

Did a job there back in my uni days haloing all the vetrans, cracking place

[Danavan]

Nice pic's. Looks well worth a visit. Thanks for posting:thumbup1:

[arbwork]

dead beech and a tree called surveyed oak

[David Humphries]

It must be quite a task to manage the secondary canopy growing up & around these fine old specimens.

 

 

Thanks for sharing the images Jeremy

 

 

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[arbwork]

Savernake Forest to the south east of Marlborough owned by the Earl of Cardigan and leased to the Forestry Commission in 1939 on a 999 year lease contains the longest avenue of trees in Britain at 4 miles ( very potholed road! Care needed esp. when looking at trees ), influenced by Capability Brown in the 1790’s with additions of drives, avenues and extensive planting programme. Jane Seymour was born and raised in the forest. Approx 7 square miles now and is AONB and SSSI. It is evident that a lot of work has been done in the recent past to i.d. trees and manage their surroundings, I read that the FC has surveyed more than 7000 veteran trees with gps and tagging here? But have no official confirmation of this,

 

David I felt that there could be more intervention with the surrounding environment and also to the trees themselves i.e. the 1st pic posted here the unbalanced nature of the tree could be helped to be more stable and therefore have a prolonged life by ‘consider minimal remedial work necessary to eliminate unacceptable risk’ not my words but if you follow the flow chart you end up there or ‘manage using tree surgery’ something of which I agree with, I realise there is argument both for and against intervention but I felt whilst wandering around this incredible forest that I wished I had both the funding and time to be able to negotiate with others a long term plan of management and the best be able to action some of the works ( dream on a ? ) I felt privileged just to be able to wander around in the woods, I will return! The tree I referred to is called King of Limbs.