Totteridge yew

[HCR]

Very impressive recovery!

 

Might have to go on a little jaunt to meet the good lady.

[raafbeard]

Recovery is impressive..

 

What did the mulching involve...chip?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I remember the post about this tree, nice to see it bounced back, they often do, a funny moody ol tree sometimes the yews.

 

hoping to get down to Kingley vale again this year, western europes most amazing yew forest apparently, and I would agree!

[treedom]

If you are ever in sussex, go visit Kingley Vale near Chicester.

 

Yew forrest. Its amazing. Loads of ancient Yews in a mixed woodland and another section on the downs of just Yew woodlands.

 

Its an amazing place:

 

Natural England - Kingley Vale NNR

[sean]

This thread has made my day David:)...Yews are my fave tree and i am obsessed with them...my favourite read is "the sacred yew"which has an excellent gazetteer of all alive and not so alive veterans as well as girth measurements of yews in the uk...the Totteridge is looking in better health:thumbup: a couple if years ago i went in search if the Llangenyw yew...found it...estimated at around 5,000 years old.

 

go see this one silky.....not too far from you. Out raysbury way.....well worth the journey and there is a mahoosive black walnut in the adjoining meadow......

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/19199-2500-approx-year-old-yew.html

[silky fox]

Thanks Sean...i think my next adventure will be to seek out all of the oldest Yews in Britain!...including the place Mr Croft mentioned...Kingley vale...

[silky fox]

But for me,The Yew of Yews is the Llangenyw!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thanks Sean...i think my next adventure will be to seek out all of the oldest Yews in Britain!...including the place Mr Croft mentioned...Kingley vale...

 

youll love that place, definitely a place you feel, very potent atmosphere in the wood there.

 

I am quite certain it would have and probably still is an important grove for the druids, you can feel it. They are said to be 2000 years old but I reckon they are older at least the central grove ones. Pre christian era, imagine!

[silky fox]

Such a spiritual tree:cool:

[David Humphries]

What a remarkable difference from 2010. Would be interesting to know if mulch was the only helping hand given, and details of said mulching; seaon, species, depth, time between chipping and spreading etc.

Thanks

 

Recovery is impressive..

 

What did the mulching involve...chip?

 

 

 

I've found out from one who is involved that during the summer of 2011 the yew had an application of bone, blood & fishmeal & then was mulched with locally sourced elm & sycamore.

 

It was then subjected to 'a good long watering' at the time

 

The mulch is currently covered in a variety of fungi, most of which I would assume are sapros and what may have been a cluster of a Tricholoma species.

 

 

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