The Beagle Log, 21 September 2007 - Big Trees

Subject: The Beagle Log, 21 September 2007 - Big Trees Fri 21 Sep 2007 - 0:15

Good Morning Gardeners - How many of you can walk “through” your plants?

This photo was taken while we were on vacation in California. We are in X National Park. My wife and two boys are checking out the tunnel cut through this tree - and this is not the biggest tree in the park.

Without going to the link provided, what kind of tree is this?

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Don

A GIGANTIC one!!

Don't know, Don - will have to think about this.
If it was in Britain - I'd make my guess as a massive Oak, but don't know whether you have Oak trees in America?

My grandson would love that tree - he'd be wanting to climb it!!

See you later,
Carole Very Happy

Is it a Redwood.?

I found this article on Google.

At left, a redwood tree on the grounds of the Washington's Capitol Building. The tree had begun mysteriously dying back on one side, so the team of tree experts used an "air spade" to blow away the dirt, revealing the problem: classic "bottling" of the bottom of the tree -- it was being choked by the roots around it.
Rob Lloyd, owner of Lloyd's Arboricultural Consulting, in the second photo, used a chainsaw to cut away the roots on one side; the roots slope away gradually from the trunk on the other, healthy side. Without intervention, the tree would have died.
JFS

Hi Don & JFS,

Just discovered your reply JFS on the good morning thread - so moved it here then Don doesn't miss it. Looks as though you might be the winner again JFS!! Good Work!!

See you later aligators,

Carole Very Happy

JFS - yes

The tree is the Giant Sequoia, one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods. The Giant Sequoia is the world's largest tree in terms of total volume. They grow to an average height of 50-85 m and 5-7 m in diameter. The Giant Sequoia is found in a limited area of the western Sierra Nevada, California. The oldest known Giant Sequoia is 3,200 years old.

For movie buffs, it was in a Giant Sequoia forest that the aerial cycle (or whatever they are called) chase took place in Star Wars, Episode IV: Return of the Jedi.

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Don