Lime trees planted in circles?

[TreeWalkerDJ]

Morning all,

Working today on some lime trees today. Does anyone know why they are planted in rings/circles?

[woodyguy]

Need a photo. Often however they were coppiced for centuries and the expanding edge was vast. When no longer coppiced, grew up into a ring of trees.

[the village idiot]

Beat me to it woody!

 

You may well find that each ring of trees is actually one specimen. There is a famously huge one in the UK but can't remember where. Help me out guys!

[TreeWalkerDJ]

Just been called off for an emergency so will try and get a picture when we go back later, but its not a copice all tree have been planted seperatly in a circle, like the perimeter of the circle if you get what i mean?

[se7enthdevil]

i thought that some trees are so ancient that they end up as really wide trunks that break apart and eventually start again putting up new trunk describing the outer ring of the original tree. never heard of lime doing that though.

[daltontrees]

Beat me to it woody!

 

You may well find that each ring of trees is actually one specimen. There is a famously huge one in the UK but can't remember where. Help me out guys!

Westonbirt Arboretum

[woodyguy]

The one at Westonbirt is many metres across ie a ring of individual looking trees growing in a circle. Initially it was reported as being 2000 yrs old but recently revised downwards as SL lime grows faster than they thought.

[treesrus]

i vaguely recall reading about a lime that had regenerated over the centuries, to become a ring of limes diameter 40' or thereabouts, with an estimated age over 10 thousand years. never been able to verify this though.

[the village idiot]

A 10,000 year old lime:scared1: I think all that Lapsang Souchong must have gone to your head

[treesrus]

the individual limes clearly not that old, but the original lime in the center of the circle was alive back then.