Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version

[peds]

Oh dear! 

[oldwoodcutter]

Trees don’t have to be big to be remarkable 

[skc101fc]

One day your little fellow will have taken over the stump like this one in the aboretum in the New Forest 

[PeteB]

In an old fortress in Pula, Croatia.

[organic guy]

On Anglesey,  guesses of age?

[sime42]

Several hundreds of years. What is it?

[peds]

Is it not a yew?

[Mick Dempsey]

Correct @peds it is not a yew😊
Monterey cypress/Macrocarpa.

 

Reminds me of a call I got from a client asking me to look at a yew in his garden “one of the tallest and oldest in West Sussex” he proudly proclaimed.

He was a bit crestfallen when I saw it and told him was a circa 60 year old Macrocarpa. 
 

According to google it’s only a 100 years old.

I cannot warm to these trees, never pretty, always a bastard to work on, smell bad, always lots of smashed up rubbish in the crown.

Edited May 14 by Mick Dempsey
Felt the need to give my pointless opinion.

[Stere]

Theres a load of old trees near that location, as big old estates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stere]

One is the fattest beech in the UK

 

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