Trees - Our Botanicultural Heritage

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

t'is pretty cool

 

 

 

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You cant beat a tree that stands there and dominates the scene, saying I am a tree look at me you cant ignore me:thumbup1:

[treeseer]

of course propping being the last resort when structural modifications are not an option?

 

Support IS a structural modification, by my understanding. If your structural modifications involve a lot of pruning wounds, which causes dysfunction and drying, why would they be the first resort?

 

I like to prune trees, but hate to see the benefits of tree canopy lost unnecessarily.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Support IS a structural modification, by my understanding. If your structural modifications involve a lot of pruning wounds, which causes dysfunction and drying, why would they be the first resort?

 

I like to prune trees, but hate to see the benefits of tree canopy lost unnecessarily.

 

how is it unnecessary? pruning is a vlaid option and allows natural re establishment of growth and loadings as opposed to creating a leaning post and dodgy axiom

[treeseer]

how is it unnecessary? pruning is a vlaid option and allows natural re establishment of growth and loadings as opposed to creating a leaning post and dodgy axiom

 

well coppicing also allows natural re establishment of growth and loadings--why not do a more thorough job of it then? Or grind the stump and chuck in an acorn--that'll do it too!

 

What is a leaning post and dodgy axiom? Support in trees has been done for centuries--millennia--successfully. If you understood the standards you would be a proponent.

 

Proper support makes a lot of pruning and a lot of lost canopy unnecessary. Support's sometimes not possible, but it's often a no-brainer, and a crime to nature to ignore.

[David Humphries]

Planted by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer at Felbrigg in 1946 to commemorate VE day & the death of his brother during the war.

 

A fine landscape & aerial feature

 

 

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[Fungus]

Some photo's from last Sunday's visit to the "castle" or havezate Nijenhuis near Heino in The Netherlands.

1/2 : a veteran Lyriodendron tulipifera with two branches that rooted and formed trees of their own from branches bending down to the ground.

3 : an old Carpinus bercheau.

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[David Humphries]

They are very fine subject shots, thanks for sharing Gerrit

 

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

Should of course be : an old Carpinus berceau .

[David Humphries]

Should of course be : an old Carpinus berceau .

 

Roughly how long is it Gerrit ?

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That tulip tree looks to be a pollard, in fact I would swear by it!