Veteran Tree Group

Sean Freeman

Just wanted to point people in the direction of a youtube video channel that I have started up, called Veteran Tree Group;

YouTube - VeteranTreeGroup's Channel

There is no money making involved, it has only just started I will try and load a couple of videos each week and cover various topics of interest relating to our older trees.

Anyway have a look, there is a link to a web/blog site as well.

TrevMcRev

Good on ya Sean

Have subscribed! Are you looking for contributions from further afar at all?

stirmantrees

thanks for caring about trees.

Sean Freeman

Yes please Trev, any contributions from your neck of the woods would be fantastic

Eric Frei

Sorry, I dont get it. I mean I get veteran trees but I dont get what you're trying to do.

Sean, what is it you are trying to accomplish?

Are you trying to create interest, get a register, educate people about it etc. I'm just not sure what the goal is.

Is there a veteran tree register in Australia or anywhere else?

What qualifies a tree to veteran status, opinion, age, fact, condition etc?

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Sean Freeman

Look fair question Eric, why should any of us care about older trees with visible signs of damage decay etc...


Its sort of being laid out here..Veteran Tree Group

But I'm very happy to talk about it on Tree World, perhaps I should start a thread in General Tree Chat.

It is all of the things you have suggested...raising the profile, developing awareness of their importance to everything else, getting a register started, getting like minded people together.

Sean Freeman

Here is a simple little video loooking at an exposed root plate, I just love the sheer scale of the buttress roots on Albizia saman


I also tried using the annotations in youtube to make the video a little more accurate.

Eric Frei

What's with the orange mesh perimeter?

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Sean Freeman

I suspect council had the area fenced to stop people falling into the eroded gulley.

Eric Frei

LOL, that'll stop a lot of people.

I thought it looked like some silt fence or something deteriorated.

I haven't seen any that large here in Brisbane.

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Voon Chin Seng

Hi Sean

That's great, it should be one of my must see video channels.

Most people feel veteran trees are those old useless trees, we know it is not true. They are still quitely doing their work by providing oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide from the air, and helping to cool down the temperture from the environment.

Thank you for your good work.

Sean Freeman

Some really lovely buttress roots on this Ficus macrophylla at Carrara Markets...

http://www.youtube.com/user/VeteranTreeGroup#p/a

Voon Chin Seng

Dear Sean

Thank you for the initiative.

Yes, we should not neglect those old trees which have been serving most of their live in our neighbourhood, there are lot of things we can learn from them.

Please keep it up

Cheers

Sean Freeman

Sometimes you come across a special place quite unexpectedly, and it makes you feel good inside despite a lot of other stuff that might be going on that makes you feel not so great....

This little hidden gem of a park off Bundall Road is just such a place


But do you think I could just once get away without being attacked nesting birds

Done it

I saw these pics on a non tree related forum I go to sometimes.

River Red Gum. Victoria somewhere.

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Sean Freeman

Absolutely beautiful pics, thankyou for sharing

Bruce Hopf

Wow. That sure some very impressive tree rooting. Thanks for posting the neat looking pictures. Bruce.

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Sean Freeman

It truely is amazing how well tree can grow in ideal conditions...I was in Grafton yesterday trying to catch the last of the Jacaranda Festival, sadly fort he second year the weather had other ideas (a little wet in Nth NSW over the weekend!)

Anyhow......i did get a short vid shot in one of my favourite bits of Grafton, the Fig Tree Avenue.


When I got back to the office did a bit of a search to find out that they were planted in 1939...making them only 70-80yrs old, really remarkable growth for such a short time, fabulous soils along the Clarence Valley.

Bruce Hopf

Very impressive video. Is that one tree, or a whack of them together? Thanks. Bruce.

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Sean Freeman

Its an avenue Bruce.

Veteran Tree Group: Growing Conditions the Key to Understanding Growth Rates

Bruce Hopf

HI Sean. I'm asking if it was one tree, or a bunch together, in one spot. I understand that it is an avenue, very impressive too. I have never seen trees like this, so that is what I was wondering, about. Thanks. Bruce.

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Sean Freeman

Ficus microcarpa hillii in common with a number of other fig species form aerial (or prop) roots quite readily, they can rapidly form a lower stem architecture that does look like numerous stems grafted together but each of these particular canopies was formed on one original tree stem, with the pillars developing as the tree ages.

The effect is emphasised by the buttressing and fluting associated with the developing enlarging root system.

Bruce Hopf

Thanks for the reply Sean. They are a very unique looking tree. Bruce.

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