Trees - Our Botanicultural Heritage

[Hollands]

Awesome thread, went to school next door to hampstead heath so knew alot of the landmarks in the first pics. Funny how you dont appreciate the trees when your that young. What is happeneing on the last few pics with the logs tied to those trees?

[David Humphries]

Awesome thread, went to school next door to hampstead heath so knew alot of the landmarks in the first pics. Funny how you dont appreciate the trees when your that young. What is happeneing on the last few pics with the logs tied to those trees?

 

Resurection of Dead standing trunk.

This is at Ted Greens little play park.

Some fantastic long term experiments and observations.

 

 

Many invertebrates & fungi only habitate in this particular environment.

Inside this Beech is Ganoderma pfeifferi (relatively rare)

 

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[dannyT]

really interesting thread monkeyd cheers for posting. Sorry for highjacking a bit but the avenue of plain trees reminded me of a an avenue of plain trees at a chateau i worked at whilst living in the south of france, it was rumored that napoleans army planted them to give shade to his troops who used the chateau as a cavalry stable Have been asked to do a little dead wooding on them as they drop a lot of dead limbs, Maybe later this year when i visit the family out there (bus mans holiday )

[David Humphries]

really interesting thread monkeyd cheers for posting. Sorry for highjacking a bit but the avenue of plain trees reminded me of a an avenue of plain trees at a chateau i worked at whilst living in the south of france, it was rumored that napoleans army planted them to give shade to his troops who used the chateau as a cavalry stable Have been asked to do a little dead wooding on them as they drop a lot of dead limbs, Maybe later this year when i visit the family out there (bus mans holiday )

 

Knock your self out, all threads are for posting on........

 

Great shot, it's been a good while since they were last pollarded.

40/50 years maybe, whatd'ya reckon?

 

Fine butressing too.

 

 

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Edited May 9, 2009 by Monkey-D

[dannyT]

Yeah typical french tree surgery................not my cup of cha, but they dont look in bad nic for it. Dont fancy pollarding them on holiday LMAO.

[David Humphries]

Currently re-visiting a past survey of Sorbus torminalis.

We have a incredibly healthy population, particularly for a semi-urban site.

Going to replot, add to mapinfo or Arbortrack and create individual management plans.

 

Suddenly realised today about this one, that dawned on me what it actually was a couple of years back.

Unbelievably it's not on the original map.

Gawd knows how it was missed

 

 

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[sean]

Just been looking through your thread.....fantastic. Will have to come up for a visit some time to look at those fine vets!

[David Humphries]

Just been looking through your thread.....fantastic. Will have to come up for a visit some time to look at those fine vets!

 

Feel free to give me an electronicy postal type thingy (below)

 

Always happy to show people around

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still waiting for the call Janey, you busy all of a sudden or sommit

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[David Humphries]

As a member of a local friends comittee & the delegated "tree" person for my local small Victorian Park, I thought I would look at the history of the site amonst other things.

 

 

Here's a couple of snap shots seperated by the progression of time.

 

Originally, there was just the one Q robur at this end of the park.

 

Shame that none of the pavement trees survived.

 

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[David Humphries]

With the minds eye focussed on what has come before, and the need to sustain. I took the lads for a wee stroll this arvo to get my progeny to collect the old Oaks progeny across the way, (who's natural environment has dwindled, been compacted and had their seed stripped bare by the grey peril over the decades)

To instigate a nurturing of the seed of the future for replacement of either one of these old ones or another local robur.

 

 

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