I won't bore you with more photos but wanted you to see the root ball of my black walnut that blew over on Tuesday. My street has power but many people still do not. I have not driven my car since Monday so I really have no idea what's going on anywhere but my own home. It was truly a fast and furious storm. I hope a big cleanup is planned because I'm going to need it. Enjoy your weekend and be safe. xo
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My goodness, it must have taken an incredible amount of force to topple that tree. Hopefully, there will be utility crews to help you and your neighbors. Hang in there, Rosemary!
It makes me so sad to lose a tree of that size an age. Hundreds of years old!?!
California Live Oaks can tip over totally; and if some of their roots are still in the ground, they will continue to live....and just send up trunks from the fallen trunks. When people do not know, they cut the whole thing down. We have two on our property that have now sent up new trunks 20 feet tall! and branches!
I learned from reading Tom Church's landscape book. Best landscape book I have ever read!
Gardens are for People. Thomas Church.
I am so sorry about your tree. You be safe. Good grief. Covid and then a hurricane.
That is a huge root ball. My parents had a black walnut tree in their yard and it grows so slow. It was not big while I was little, and now I'm 66 and the tree is still not a huge tree. I think they are long lived trees unless a tornado takes them out.
My Dad died this year in February and I believe his wife's family will sell the house. I hope whoever moves in doesn't cut down that black walnut tree. I get attached to trees almost like they are pets, if they are in my yard, or my neighbors yard.
Ohhh...how sad!! I too, always feel a huge hole in my heart when I see a tree has been lost. Will you plant another for the next generation? My heart goes out to you for this terrible loss of beauty and I'm sure a home and source of shelter to many birds, squirrels, etc. I do recall at the DeWint House (Washington's headquarters) in Tappan, NY not far from where I grew up in Bergen County, NJ there was an enormous tree base which was hundreds of years old. It had been nearly all cut down after a storm so long ago, but it too grew a new sprout that is now quite a large tree. They had a plaque with the tree's story. Here's the link to see the tree today which really is a sprout from the massive original trunk they lovingly saved. Scroll through images: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g48719-d8684655-Reviews-The_DeWint_House-Tappan_New_York.html
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