The power and resilience of trees and plant

[John Shutler]

Got thinking today about the power and resilience of trees and plants and thought it would make a great thread. So to start, here's a picture of some bracken after breaking it's way through tarmac

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[Old Mill Tree Care]

Good idea for a thread John. Here's my contribution:

An old Sequoiadendron stump, 12ft tall and a Rowan had seeded in the top and grown roots that cascade down the sides into the ground.

Brilliantly adaptive.

 

 

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[nepia]

I seem to remember that it wasn't as appreciated by the client though was it Al, more's the pity.

 

 

Jon

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I seem to remember that it wasn't as appreciated by the client though was it Al, more's the pity.

 

Jon

 

That's right Jon, it was the same garden as that Monkey Puzzle.

The client made me cut down this fantastic Redwood/Rowan. Such a shame but she was quite attractive!

[TGB]

... Such a shame but she was quite attractive!

The tree combo or the client?

[aspenarb]

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And when the human race is finished and has made the world uninhabitable it will be plant life that reduces everything we have built to soil. What would be left of anything on this planet if vegetation went unchecked for a thousand years? And that is a mere blink in time considering the millions of years this planet has been here.

 

Bob

[spandit]

That's why I've always had a sneaking admiration for invasive (or quick growing plants). I'd rather look at a landscape covered in kudzu than concrete...

 

Hoping the machetes I've just bought will help curb some of the brambles, docks and bracken on my patch, mind!

[fergusonforestry]

chernobyl

[Burgess]

[Old Mill Tree Care]

The tree combo or the client?

 

Both.

 

Especially the client.

 

 

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