Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version

[Gary Prentice]

The Lirio is still there Gary, don't recall the sweet chestnut, must be long gone

 

When were you there? we may have overlapped

 

 

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Before your time I'd imagine. My old man was the caretaker there when it was a college offering arts and crafts evening classes. I worked there one summer when I was 15, so 1981, doing something or other that my dad needed help for a special project.

 

I think Brian Crane came along a few years later

 

Stood at the front door, the chestnut to infront to the right on the far side of the lawn. About 1.5m dbh from memory with terrific spiralling bark.

[David Humphries]

Before your time I'd imagine. My old man was the caretaker there when it was a college offering arts and crafts evening classes. I worked there one summer when I was 15, so 1981, doing something or other that my dad needed help for a special project.

 

I think Brian Crane came along a few years later

 

Stood at the front door, the chestnut to infront to the right on the far side of the lawn. About 1.5m dbh from memory with terrific spiralling bark.

 

 

A little bit before my time, I did 7 years as a student there from 1985.

 

Don't recall the chestnut, but memories not what it was !

 

 

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

What chestnut?

[David Humphries]

What chestnut?

 

 

Hee hee 😄

 

 

 

 

 

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[kev7937]

No guesses? It's a Liriodendron (tulip tree). Anyone seen a larger one in the UK? This must be amongst the oldest and largest. Amazing Tree, pics don't do justice

 

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I helped in the removal of one in dorking 20 Ish years ago, it was about 3m diameter at ground level as I recall.

 

We thought at the time it was one of the original 7 that were imported, no idea if that's true but it was massive.

[kev7937]

Friends of Deepdene | Aerial view of Deepdene House looking towards the grotto

 

the one in the middle in front of the house.

[treefolk]

I helped in the removal of one in dorking 20 Ish years ago, it was about 3m diameter at ground level as I recall.

 

We thought at the time it was one of the original 7 that were imported, no idea if that's true but it was massive.

That must have been a task and a half. I reckon this tree is also at least 3m at ground level so maybe similar age. There was a huge manor house on the site which burned down early last century so I'm told. The remaining gardens are still very impressive, lots of veteran trees.

 

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[kev7937]

That must have been a task and a half. I reckon this tree is also at least 3m at ground level so maybe similar age. There was a huge manor house on the site which burned down early last century so I'm told. The remaining gardens are still very impressive, lots of veteran trees.

 

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I was relatively green at the time, I can remember the climber up there taking the limbs off with a 066 and lumps fling off as he crashed it down.

 

There's a video somewhere of the butt going over, prob on vhs.

[treefellapaul73]

Just moved to a new area, and whilst checking out new trails with my hound, I came across what looked like a bomb crater (there are many of these in Suffolk and Essex, from when our boys limped home from missions over France and Germany, and ditched their cargo/ munitions before a possible wheels up crash landing on one of many local airfields) Anyway, we dropped into it, and found this old bent up oak, healthy enough, that resembled a big ol slug with a hobbit front door sized cavity, and inside a clutch of (thrush?) eggs....Some local kids had obviously had some fun building a tree house in its canopy, but long since abandoned. Me being a big kid at heart might just rebuild it for future generations!!....

[Steve Bullman]

See what you mean Paul, pretty cool

 

 

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