found...a tree

[oldmoleskins]

I know this sounds impossibly casual, but it's true.
We've just completed a woodland walk through the nether regions of OM's patch - a place I've fought my way through before, but only once. It's a tangle of dense self-sown saplings among more mature (some very mature) stuff,... and I was so preoccupied then with ducking under branches and scrabbling through brambles, I really didn't take much notice...

But with a digger, chainsaw and tractor, over a very full day, we've carved a way through for a couple of hundred yards, and look what I found - a huge Monkey Puzzle tree. It has a fine top-knot, but has suffered lower down because of the competition.

It is a huge tree - 2.7m/9ft around at about chest height and has the most wonderful bark. Just need the monkeys now...

OM

[sweetleaf]

OM that tree seems to have a face...and creepy eyes...eek!

[Plocket]

Oh my that poor tree has suffered! But the bark is amazing - it almost looks as though it's got rope wrapped around it from a distance. It also makes me think of totem poles with all those eyes!!!

[chickadeedeedee]

That is QUITE the find! Lovely bark.

Wonder how he planted himself out there?

Jealous of the find ...... C3D

[oldmoleskins]

Sadly, have limited info on he original garden layout C3D, but the location is close enough to the walled garden and it's 'formal' entrances to be within the area that was formal garden in the 1850's. I think, like the Wellingtonia, this is a 'nob's import' from the heady Victorian days and was placed on 'the circuit'.

OM.

[lottielady]

OM the more I read about your garden the more it reminds me of the Lost gardens of Heligan programme. I know it's hard work but it must be really exciting to find all these things. Can hardly wait for the next discovery!

LL X

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What a fantastic find! Sounds like a huge fantastic garden too.