We can’t keep away from the trees, the tree works and the creatures who live in the trees. It’s an occupational hazard, but a lovely one, because there’s always something to learn, something different to see, and something to compare to.
We popped over to Cadiz in southern Spain for a few days in October and were delighted to find parrots in the Judas trees which provided shade to a charming square in the middle of the lovely, tiny old city.
There were tree surgeons working on the tallest Palms in the Botanical Gardens, making a lovely job of keeping the formal gardens immaculate. The standards of health and safety that we watched that day were identical to our own, with arborists working in a clearly demarcated work exclusion zone from a mobile Elevated Operating Platform (MEWP) and wearing all the same protective equipment that we wear here.
In so many ways there’s no doubting what we have in common with many of our European neighbours.
You don’t see many of these round our way though! A member of the Fig family, Ficus micorcarpa is a bit of a monster. This one was about 24 “hugs” around the girth, and that was without going in and out of all of the trunk ribs!
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