The Lovely Ash

As I mentioned in an earlier blog, the Glade has an old Ash tree on its boundary. She is about 200 years old and is in decline.

This April it was decided that she needed to be treated to allow her to decline with grace and dignity - rather than come tumbling down the hill bringing damage and destruction with her!

Mike Savage, an 'Ancient Forrester' as he describes himself (a tree surgeon), has been taking care of this tree for nearly twenty years and after careful consideration began major work on her.

Sorry my photos are not great - I think you need to read them from bottom to top to get the timeframe, but I hope you can see how the process went. The brave soul who climbed the tree swung around the branches with amazing speed and agility and the process took very little time. She looks amazing still and offers great resources to birds and insects. There are plenty of holes for the woodpeckers and I am hoping the owl will return for some night hunts as things settle down over the summer.