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11-10-2010, 10:09 AM
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| | | Trees at Bushy Park
I was taken for a gentle stroll around Bushy Park yesterday.
There were alot of blighted Horse Chestnuts. 
It was gorgeous & here just a few trees that caught my eye. 
Crack Willow 
Crack Willow Trunk 
Dead Oak 
Dead Oak 
Fallen Crack Willow 
Fallen Crack Willow 
Fallen Crack Willow Roots 
Oak 
Oak Trunk 
Hollow Tree 
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11-10-2010, 10:29 AM
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| | | Re: Trees at Bushy Park
Nice pictures - the fallen crack willow looks like it's in lush condition, with nice green leaves. Do you think it had just fallen recently, or has fallen some time ago and is genuinely just continuing to thrive? |
11-10-2010, 10:32 AM
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| | | Re: Trees at Bushy Park
Good to see dead trunks left standing as long as there's no H&S issue - IMO if there was an issue there should be a barriered zone erected around the tree to prevent any injury from branch drop!
These stumps are great habitat for all sorts of fauna. I love the crack willow trunk too.
Replanting is evident by the single tree within a grazing guard. Very nice. |
11-10-2010, 11:11 AM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Nr Canterbury, Kent
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| | | Re: Trees at Bushy Park
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Originally Posted by SpikyPhasmid  Nice pictures - the fallen crack willow looks like it's in lush condition, with nice green leaves. Do you think it had just fallen recently, or has fallen some time ago and is genuinely just continuing to thrive? | Hi Spiky Phasmid,
Yes it will continue to thrive. Willows are about the only tree, where you can stick a section of cut trunk into the ground and it will grow a new willow. |
11-10-2010, 12:25 PM
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| | | Re: Trees at Bushy Park
I was reminded recently that no amount of young or even mature tree growth can ever replace the diversity of habitats formed in and on and around an old/ancient/veteran tree. So many more species can live when parts of a tree start to decay. The older a tree the more valuable it becomes. Quote:
a 500 year old oak is a whole ecosystem for creatures for which 10,000 oaks of 200 years old are no use at all.
Oliver Rackham
| I love this idea.
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11-10-2010, 02:29 PM
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Quite right and so important. I saw a TV report last week about the perils of burning fallen timber on camp fires, taking it away for firewood etc. I think it may have been the New Forest. By doing this it deprives the whole ecosystem.
A very old oak woodland is a treasure indeed, there aren't many left. The NT's Crom Castle estate in NI has a gem of a such wood for instance. |
11-10-2010, 08:14 PM
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| | | Re: Trees at Bushy Park
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Originally Posted by animartco Hi Spiky Phasmid,
Yes it will continue to thrive. Willows are about the only tree, where you can stick a section of cut trunk into the ground and it will grow a new willow. | Chestnuts can thrive after falling as well. There is a picture of one in Denstead Wood doing well around 15 years after falling in Woodlands by Rackham, that is where I heard of such a thing happening. I don't know what proprotion of trees survive after a felling, though. |
16-10-2010, 06:15 PM
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| | | Re: Trees at Bushy Park
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Originally Posted by SpikyPhasmid Nice pictures - the fallen crack willow looks like it's in lush condition, with nice green leaves. Do you think it had just fallen recently, or has fallen some time ago and is genuinely just continuing to thrive? | Thanks Spiky.
A passer by told me it fell some years ago. Bet it made when hell of a noise when it went!
I found this tree fascinating in it's formation, hence I took so many pics of it.
All bar 2 of my 'Fungi at Bushy Park' pics were taken on, in & around this tree.
So much to see in such close proximity!
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