The estate cedar.
A cedar of Lebanon planted around 1850, with one enormous horizontal limb over a marquee lawn.
- Cedar of Lebanon
- Cedrus libani
- Country-house lawn, Mendip
Cedars planted in the open grow wide rings when young; this one laid down broad bands for its first forty years, then slowed as the lawn trees around it grew.
The stem was sound: a brown tomogram, t/R 0.89. The risk was the limb, not the trunk.
We specified an end-weight reduction on the limb rather than a prop, and left the rest of the tree as it was.
Resistance-drill trace
Bark → depth · the trace drops where the needle meets decay
“Precise, unhurried and honest about what the tree needed and didn’t.”
Estate manager · Country-house lawn, Mendip