Saturday, March 3, 2012

You never know what you'll wake up to.

 I came out into my garden yesterday morning to find a large branch had fallen from an Eleocarpus grandis (Blue Quandong - a large growing rainforest tree) during the night. It fell right into the middle of a clump of China Gold Bamboo and broke a young Laegerstroemia indica (Crepe Myrtle) that was starting to be trained into shape for a feature in the Japanese garden.The branch was 150 mm in diameter and about 6 metres long.
It's just as well Bamboo grows quickly in summer so the damage that's been done will soon disappear amongst the new culms that grow up. It only took about 5 minutes to cut the fallen branch into managable pieces with my Samurai brand pruning saw.
The tree the branch came off is around 20 metres (70ft) tall

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