Trees - Our Botanicultural Heritage

[Fungus]

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

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

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thats really interesting, firstly the regrowth indicates it is well capable of dealing with decay, or it would have lost major limbs by now.

 

also, not native to the region but cleary of great age, would be great to know how old those regrown stems are:001_cool:

[treeseer]

Beautiful Liriodendron. Very common here; filled the chestnut's niche post-blight.

 

Looks like it was topped/pollarded/reduced hard at 5 m but came back stable?! with its reputation as weak-wooded, straight-grained, quick-rotting, it's surprising to me that structure has held up all this time/.

 

Never saw one layer (grow roots from branches on ground) before. common in other species, can be forced.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Beautiful Liriodendron. Very common here; filled the chestnut's niche post-blight.

 

Looks like it was topped/pollarded/reduced hard at 5 m but came back stable?! with its reputation as weak-wooded, straight-grained, quick-rotting, it's surprising to me that structure has held up all this time/.

 

Never saw one layer (grow roots from branches on ground) before. common in other species, can be forced.

 

 

Yes, there is much myth about the strength and properties of trees!

 

the truth is far removed from the texts:001_rolleyes:

[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

 

 

Another walk around Felbrigg a couple of days ago, and had an encounter with a very fine oak indeed.

 

Not bad for a 'young un' thought to be a mere 500 years old.

 

Girth not far short of 8 meters & large enough inside for tea party or secret meeting

 

Been subject to a recent large limb tear out, but other than that it looks set fair for another 500 years.

 

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[Warren Stirling]

Nice shots David, that is a chunky tree.

[treeseer]

Beautiful indeed; would be tempted to tickle a few ends in to prevent more tear-outs if that were doable. Great shots from the bottom inside up, and of the boy so tuned in to that heritage.

I especially like the multitasking branches laying on the ground across the path; bordering and seating for people, and nourishing for tree.

[David Humphries]

Beautiful indeed; would be tempted to tickle a few ends in to prevent more tear-outs if that were doable.

 

Likewise

 

This one's a National Trust tree Guy, not sure what their budget is for veteran tree works, although I did note that the site has had relatively recent works carried out on some of their older trees.

 

Sadly this is a site that was involved in a fatality of a child a few years ago.

 

I would imagine that their budgets are more focussed on safety due to this.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Staying over in Herefordshire & came across this amazing tree.

 

Literally a few hundred yards from the cottage we're staying at.

 

the Linton Yew, reputed to be in the region of 4000 years old. (debatable I would of thought) but a very old tree nonetheless.

 

It has suffered fire recently, is propped on one major side scaffold and the top is now dead.

 

There is a younger central stem inside which has the remains of an old Laetiporus on it.

 

 

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[sloth]

Wow! What a tree