Beech down

The corpse of a once famous beech tree. A little diseased, so perhaps fell prey to a winter storm.

In margins, from the leaflet about these woods, I learned that beeches were sometimes grown by bundling. That is to say planting a bunch of beech saplings tied together, so that eventually they fused into a single tree. A variation, I suppose, of grafting several scions, from different trees onto the top of the one rootstock.

Good to know that there are other tree nuts out there. But do not be confused by reference 2 which seems to be something quite different. Reference 3 is what you want.

Reference 1: http://www.ancient-tree-hunt.org.uk/morestuff/relatedorganisations/South+East/Histrees+Project.

Reference 2: http://histreetrail.com/.

Reference 3: http://walks.wildonwight.co.uk/histree.php. Legends and landscapes is the one in question.

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