Stephen and I spent a few hours yesterday in King's Park. It is a beautiful area. A large city park, a war memorial and a botanic garden all rolled into one and situated on a hill overlooking the main CBD of the city and the river the city straddles.The pic above is one from the Kings Park site (I forgot to take my camera) and this pic has a boab tree in the foreground.
While we were at the park yesterday they were transplanting a 750 year old boab tree.
See news articles here and here. This tree was a truly awe-inspiring sight.
I will be flying home later today ....
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Cool - it looks brilliant - now of to watch/read the articles, seems a grand undertaking to move such and old tree, one wonders if it will make it!
THe traffic must have been incrediable, sorry I am late boss, they were moving this tree......
THe tree looks huge though, I hope it likes its new home, truely an amazing thing!
They can really transplant a 750 yr old tree?? Love the one that was a prison.....
Beautiful!
Funny how I immediately thought BAOBAB when I read about your boab, and wondered whether you didn't actually mean a baobab, LOL!
I've seen them in Africa and I can only agree: they're characters and a sight to see! Baobabs are huge and the home of an incredible amount of spieces of animals living on and off it.
The German name is Affenbrotbaum (monkey bread tree), referring to its nutritional value for various spieces of monkeys and apes.
I'm amazed that they were able to actually replant such an old tree! Of course they do have very flat roots, but it is still quite a shock for the tree's system to grow in completely different soils from one day to the next!
Mariann - that is exactly the mistake I did make. I did indeed refer to them as baobab trees and Stephen very gently corrected me - he only knew because he made the same mistake a couple of months earlier again :)
I think they are similar to baobab trees - but are apparently quite a distinct name.
Neat - would love to see these in person! But then again, I'd like to go to California to see the giant Redwoods, too - some big enough to drive through...
I hope it takes the transplant well, and I am glad it wasn't simply cut down for the highway.
I am sure you are home already, so I hope you enjoyed your flight!
And did anyone besides me find it funny that the botanical garden guy's name was DIGby GROWs? Dig and grow? I wonder if that is his real name......
Yes, according to one of that articles said they belong to the same family and that their origin is most probably in Africa.
What beautiful trees. Never seen them but I do know that you can grow them from seeds here (although indoors). Love the blue blue sky. Its something I really miss from my time in Australia.
Wish you a good flight back. Hugs
What a beautiful picture they got - the sky is awesome, and have safe trip home!
That was fascinating. Hope you had a good flight home.
14 tonnes of tree...wow...that must have been some sight to watch as it travelled to the new home.
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