I really enjoy visiting Arnold, I also enjoy seeing this magnificent tree - or is it two trees? It looks like two trees - but why would two trees be allowed to grow so close together? These are huge and have been cut back considerably over the years as they were reaching out to the house roof and the outbuildings.
High up in the tree is a beautiful bird house, I think jackdaws are residence.
Whatever lives up there will be well fed because John provides a very wide range of bird foods.
So, if anyone knows about trees and has any ideas about this/these I'd be grateful for your input.
We had a Victoria plum tree that grew two trunks. The one part rotted and fell down, but the other half seems to be going strong. No idea what causes it. Love the little bird house way up in the boughs.
ReplyDeleteHi Molly, That tree is truly massive, the little bird house is probably the size of a small dog kennel, crazy as that sounds! Thank goodness your Victoria plum tree survived, does it crop well?
DeleteIt wasn't that brilliant last year, I'm wondering if it's succumbed to sort sort of virus. We cut the half that fell down up for logs and burnt them on the fire. Your pear tree must be magnificent. Don't know whether I could brave it all the way up to put to site the bird house - somebody must have had a good head for heights.
ReplyDeleteWell - coming from the land of no trees, i wouldn't venture to say. Was it maybe coppiced a long time ago
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Hello Jacqui, I truly love your land of no trees! I think it is the wrong kind of tree for coppicing, but I can see where you are coming from. I need to investigate more fully, to date I have only stood and admired.
DeleteWe have stoney ground...lots of split trees....I have no idea if that is of a ANY relevance at all!
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Hello Jane, Now that is an interesting thought. I need to do some checking. When the better weather arrives for you I'd love to see more of your trees.
DeleteI hope you find the answer to your question. I loved the pictures of Arnold and Toby in yesterday's post!
ReplyDeleteIn the change to my new email address, I got locked out of my blog and I'm struggling with Google to get it corrected. It's been mentally exhausting and stressful. I don't know what I'll do if I can't get it back!
Hello Ms Sparrow, What a trying and stressful time you have had. Battles with technology, and unhelpful companies, do that to me too. For the last few days I had been wondering how you were doing and hoping that you were not ill. I hope you get your blog access sorted out, for your own sake but also because we miss you. Take care now.
DeleteWhat an amazing tree. You will have lots of happy birds...Have a great week ahead, Elaine!
ReplyDeleteHello Heidi, Isn't that tree wonderful. It belongs to our neighbour, John. He feeds his birds very well indeed and provides all sorts of lovely homes and boxes for them. They are truly fortunate ones. I hope you have a great week too.
DeleteHi Elaine...I have no idea about your twin trees. Remember, I did a post about the trees in a town near the farm. And then, I have a ceder tree that is growing horizontally??? Why not make up a story to go with the two trees...personally, I think it must be a love story.
ReplyDeleteHello Meggie, That is a really nice thought, a love story! I need to knuckle down and find my Observer's Book of Trees and do some investigating! Every time we go to John's place I admire the tree - but not until Arnold has had his treats, hugs and conversations. We lost a tree to the wind and the sleet last night, nothing nearly so large as that one, so our work today will begin with clearing it and tidying the area. Not quite the start to the day we had planned, luckily it was nowhere near the house.
DeleteThese trees are the Siamese twins of trees, joined at the roots where you can't see! Possible but who knows? Love the bird house.
ReplyDeleteHi cuby poet, You may well be right. That bird house is a beauty and it is very sturdily fixed to the tree - just as well because the March winds began yesterday. It is wild out there!
DeleteIs it an Oak? If so, The barefoot Crofter is probably right. Cut one down, and several will grow again from the base. Leave just two branches and voila!
ReplyDeleteHello Cro, I don't think it is an oak, but I am no expert. I will check with John - he owns the land which the tree stands on. Whatever it is, it has been there a long time and has seen many comings and goings. The outbuildings opposite the tree used to be a slaughterhouse and butcher's shop!
DeleteHey maybe there twins, lovely post
ReplyDeleteHi Andy, I'm so pleased that you enjoyed it. Twins, Siamese Twins, Lovers, who knows? I know is that it/they is/are old and beautiful! I also know that I wouldn't want them growing close to my house, but my goodness the things they must have seen!
DeleteI love the twin idea. But I do know some trees (maybe it's just oaks) share a root system. The Live Oak (as do other oaks) does this and you often come across one that looks like it has 2-4 separate trunks. Shared root system is also the reason we are losing so many of them to oak wilt spreads through the root system.
ReplyDeleteHi Janet, It is very interesting (to me)! When I visited Arnold today I took a good look at the buds which have formed on the the smaller branches and they are sooty black and very much like Common Ash buds, John wasn't there again so I couldn't ask him. No doubt once the leaves form I will have a better answer.
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