Oak is 5 minutes walk from Vignouse and M and I pass it regularly on our walks. Sadly, Ivy has installed herself and drains Oak's resources to the point where she no longer has control and has lost her highly valued integrity. The outcome is inevitable. The journey saddens me.
oh, I feel the sadness - surely ivy could have been thwarted easily with a cut and paint? Is ivy a native there? The feeling of huge size and age really comes through to me, especially on black!
Ivy is our deadly enemy! John is always finding a bit and drags it out by the roots but it turns up somewhere else. Next door her cabbage tree is inundated with ivy!
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I think I know who is the owner of this tree, it certainly abuts his land. However he's an 80+ year old widower, his family are not nearby. He shuffles about with his walking frame...and can talk for France. I visit him now and again and enjoy his monologues...
Very disturbing image of a tree in distress. Every year someone should be cutting the ivy at the bottom of the tree's trunk which will kill the ivy's vine. Then clear away any ivy that's within a two feet of the trunk.Easy-peasy if someone wants to do it.
I think I know who is the owner of this tree, it certainly abuts his land. However he's an 80+ year old widower, his family are not nearby. He shuffles about with his walking frame...and can talk for France. I visit him now and again and enjoy his monologues...