By gum

I have a book about significant trees in New Zealand. It gives the location of them, so today while exploring Greytown, we found this huge gum. It has a bit of a story to it. Back in 1856, a man was wheeling a barrow of goods across a track and was bound for Masterton (about 24 km further from Greytown). He stopped at the pub and three gum seedlings were stolen from the barrow. This is one of the three planted here and survived all this time - located by St Luke’s Church. (We were on our bike, hence the hi-viz.)

[Diana]

Fabulous capture of this wonderful old tree, such a great story too.

[Babs]

What a beautiful tree and interesting story

[Issi Bannerman]

Lovely tree story and image!

[Joan Robillard]

Magnificent tree. I love looking up things like this.

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Love the story of how it came to be. Such a wonder trunk lovely textures, can only imagine its height. fav!

[winghong_ho]

Wonderful to see this.

[Joanne Diochon]

An amazing tree and a great back story. Leaves me wondering who stole the seedling and planted it.

[Judith Johnson]

Very eye-catching outfit! I like the gum tree shot too!

[Fisher Family]

An impressive tree and a fascinating back story!

Ian

[carol white]

A super capture, great textures on the tree bark

[Beverley]

Lovely to read…. Enjoy!!!

[Christine Sztukowski]

Beautiful very old tree simply amazing

[Pat Knowles]

What a story….its done well!

[Phil Howcroft]

nice one dianne

[Shutterbug]

Wow, it is a huge tree. Sounds like an interesting book.

[Peter]

What an interesting find and capture Dianne thanks the narrative:)