A VERY Weeping Willow...

Weather here yesterday was so awful I was moved to have a whinge in "What's your weather Like...?"

But I wasn't prepared for this....

Remember the lovely, ghostly willow tree from the "Frost & Snow" thread?


Well, this is what we found at 6.30 this morning:



It was badly damaged by the drought a couple of years ago, but I thought it was recovering. Sadly the trunk had rotted half through at ground level, and it couldn't cope with the gales just "standing on one leg", as it were.



Luckily it went over at night and not when anyone was near it.... But I HATE losing trees. Sad.

 

How sad, Hy! As you said, it was fortunate no one was near it at the time. Now I appreciate what you were telling me! :eek: Looks like it's better there today, as it is here.

I see one of the family was helping you examine the damage!

 

Yup! Sahne always goes with me down the fields! Very companionable, but a right poseur!! (Or should that be "poseuse" for a female??? I dunno!!)

 

:( Blimey H-a..not a sight to lift your spirits first thing in the morning is it!
The poor thing looks as if rot had set in a while ago though..

 

You must feel very unhappy, H-A - I hate losing a tree too, and one that mature, it's horrible. I think we're all Dogmatix at heart....

BTW, why not Schlagsahne, if you're going down that route, or do you have another, called Schlag?

 

Well, Obelix got his name from his size and his "schlagen" activities... but we could have "Rahm" and "Doppelrahm", I suppose!! And Sahne jumped into the fireplace once, would you believe!! Nearly had to change her name to "creme brulee"!!!!

 

:eek:

 

How sad to see a lovely tree die H-a. Are you going to replace it with something else?

 

I'm sure we will - this isn't a good place for a willow anyway, to be honest, as it's pretty dry in the summer. We'd like to plant the area next to the barn with some ornamental trees at some point, so our guests can sit in the shade and look at the view! Any ideas? Soil here is clay with lumps of limestone in, and we get temperatures of 30+ in summer, with quite lengthy dry spells at times!

 

How about a girt big fig tree :D

 

Yay! We're going to put in an orchard after the septic tank's been installed, in the area where the outflow will be returned to the soil. We're planning apples, cherries, apricots, white peaches... and figs! (We already have a dozen yellow peaches and what they call "vine peaches" here.) We also want soft fruits, although because of the temperatures we'll grow strawbs and rasps in the shade of the barn wall. But currants and stuff we can interplant between the bigger trees.... eventually! Hence we were planning ornamentals at t'back o' t'barn.... there are about three acres of land by the house, plus another acre down to sweetcorn at the moment - and eight acres or so of wheat down the valley! So plenty of room!

 

Sounds like a fair bit of work there, H-A :rolleyes: But as Voltaire says........ and he wasn't even the one credited with coming up with mots justes!