A single support
Sometimes a single prop is all that is needed to support a heavy
branch. The examples are from Milson, Challock and Molash.
Note the quality of the support at Milson, shaped to fit the contours
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Milson Yew, Shropshire - 1999 © Tim Hills |
Yew at Molash in Kent - 1999 © Tim Hills |
Yew at Challock in Kent - 1999 © Tim
Hills |
There was a time when it was fashionable to fill hollow yews with
concrete or brickwork. The Minstead Yew in Hampshire
is once such tree, apparently filled with concrete in 1979.
Many years later one half of its trunk was destroyed during
a severe storm. There were those who thought the tree
should be felled, but advice to leave it and ‘see what
happened’ was accepted.
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Minstead Yew - 2002 © Tim Hills |
At Bedhampton, also in Hampshire, it is possible that the weight
of bricks filling the cavity has contributed to the lean of
the tree. This female yew was “leaning on a staff” when
visited in 1939; by 1998 a second prop had been added.
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Bedhampton’s propped yew - 1998 © Tim Hills |
