Trees in Bury Knowle Park
From:
Julia Gasper
Date:
Jul 25 14:02 UTC
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After we reported that tree meeting, the Oxford Mail contacted me and asked me
to go to Bury Knowle to be photographed for a story about it. I immediately
invited several other people to go with me. This morning I had a series of four
telephone calls from them either asking to change the time or confirming that
it was the same! At one o'clock today, Ben Beaument and I turned up as arranged
at the park gates and no photographer materialized.
Never mind - the trip was not wasted as I needed to buy some moth balls.
By the way, I think there is still time to save the broken branch of the tree
(whitebeam, I think) at the corner of Trinity Road and Quarry School place. The
tree has been damaged for some weeks, but the leaves on the hanging branch
continue to grow, indicating that it is still sufficiently attached for sap to
be getting through. What is needed is NOT for somebody, official or otherwise,
to come and cut off the broken branch. It needs to be fixed back in place with
a splint and bound firmly so that it heals itself. This CAN be done - I've done
it myself with broken branches on other trees. It's just like mending a broken
arm.
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