Palm Tree needs a new home
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Good afternoon, Pistonheads
Over the past 20 or so years there's seemingly no question I could ask without at least someone coming up with a great answer or suggestion, so I'm hoping to find another here.
Regrettably, my late Mum's life work of tending to her beloved home garden is simply too much for the old man to cope with alone so he's in his words 'de-cluttering'.
At the bottom of the garden stands a quite magnificent Palm Tree, must be all of 25-30 ft tall, that's been in situ for as long as i can remember.
Before he 'dismantles' it and it ends up in pieces in a skip, I was wondering what options I might have to either sell or even it give it away to a new home?
I may simply be romanticizing at the prospect of it living on, but thought I'd ask regardless.
Location is Berkshire... Good vehicle access via adjacent property driveway which would get within 10-15 feet of it, over a standard fence.
Thanks
Over the past 20 or so years there's seemingly no question I could ask without at least someone coming up with a great answer or suggestion, so I'm hoping to find another here.
Regrettably, my late Mum's life work of tending to her beloved home garden is simply too much for the old man to cope with alone so he's in his words 'de-cluttering'.
At the bottom of the garden stands a quite magnificent Palm Tree, must be all of 25-30 ft tall, that's been in situ for as long as i can remember.
Before he 'dismantles' it and it ends up in pieces in a skip, I was wondering what options I might have to either sell or even it give it away to a new home?
I may simply be romanticizing at the prospect of it living on, but thought I'd ask regardless.
Location is Berkshire... Good vehicle access via adjacent property driveway which would get within 10-15 feet of it, over a standard fence.
Thanks
I'd speak to an arboretum or specimen plant supplier.
They might be interested themselves, or may offer a 'relocation service' if you can find a new home for it.
If we were closer, we'd have it - we're in an area with a fair amount of mature palms.
Don't know if it's an urban myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
They might be interested themselves, or may offer a 'relocation service' if you can find a new home for it.
If we were closer, we'd have it - we're in an area with a fair amount of mature palms.
Don't know if it's an urban myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
Edited by Sway on Tuesday 24th March 22:55
In our old house we had a tree next to the house which I wanted to save but would have been collateral damage if we’d done the building work we wanted to do (we ended up selling). The price of getting one of those tree spades in was five figures ! With some trees they just won’t tolerate it either.
Sway said:
I'd speak to an arboretum or specimen plant supplier.
They might be interested themselves, or may offer a 'relocation service' if you can find a new home for it.
If we were closer, we'd have it - we're in an area with a fair amount of mature palms.
Don't know if it's an urben myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
Do you know what... I'll ask and find out. My Dad worked as a Special Effects Supervisor, his first feature film was Full Metal Jacket! Mostly filmed at Beckton Gas Works!They might be interested themselves, or may offer a 'relocation service' if you can find a new home for it.
If we were closer, we'd have it - we're in an area with a fair amount of mature palms.
Don't know if it's an urben myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
Definitely one for a serious landscape gardening company. I doubt it will be cheap because you need the rootball and it be effing heavy.
1,000,000 PH points for that!
Mr Ben said:
Sway said:
Don't know if it's an urben myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
Do you know what... I'll ask and find out. My Dad worked as a Special Effects Supervisor, his first feature film was Full Metal Jacket! Mostly filmed at Beckton Gas Works!Something that might be of interest https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/miamidadeco/2018/03/07/...
Looks like palms might be a bit easier to transplant than some other things due to the nature of the roots, though seems the need some care afterwards which doesn't look worse than any other tree I.e support & water.
Looks like palms might be a bit easier to transplant than some other things due to the nature of the roots, though seems the need some care afterwards which doesn't look worse than any other tree I.e support & water.
Mr Ben said:
Sway said:
I'd speak to an arboretum or specimen plant supplier.
They might be interested themselves, or may offer a 'relocation service' if you can find a new home for it.
If we were closer, we'd have it - we're in an area with a fair amount of mature palms.
Don't know if it's an urban myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
Do you know what... I'll ask and find out. My Dad worked as a Special Effects Supervisor, his first feature film was Full Metal Jacket! Mostly filmed at Beckton Gas Works!They might be interested themselves, or may offer a 'relocation service' if you can find a new home for it.
If we were closer, we'd have it - we're in an area with a fair amount of mature palms.
Don't know if it's an urban myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
CSR Performance said:
Mr Ben said:
Sway said:
I'd speak to an arboretum or specimen plant supplier.
They might be interested themselves, or may offer a 'relocation service' if you can find a new home for it.
If we were closer, we'd have it - we're in an area with a fair amount of mature palms.
Don't know if it's an urban myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
Do you know what... I'll ask and find out. My Dad worked as a Special Effects Supervisor, his first feature film was Full Metal Jacket! Mostly filmed at Beckton Gas Works!They might be interested themselves, or may offer a 'relocation service' if you can find a new home for it.
If we were closer, we'd have it - we're in an area with a fair amount of mature palms.
Don't know if it's an urban myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
Hope it is true, as where I am now (South Coast near Goodwood) there's loads of big 'palms' of the right sort of age or older. Including one outside my local Co-op!
They’re fine to move if you can physically do it. We moved a 10ft tall palm to another location in our garden. dug round the root ball, knocked it over then dragged it out the hole. The hardest part was getting the root ball up and out the hole to surface level. Watered and fed it for a while after, was still going strong and flowering a few years later.
Simpo Two said:
Definitely one for a serious landscape gardening company. I doubt it will be cheap because you need the rootball and it be effing heavy.
1,000,000 PH points for that!
The gas works features prominently in the last bit of the film, it's been used in loads of films and a few music 'videos ' in its time. I once knew someone who lived with a view of the place.Mr Ben said:
Sway said:
Don't know if it's an urben myth, but apparently a lot of palms of that sort of age were imported for Full Metal Jacket, with Kubrick turning the Isle of Dogs into Vietnam. After production, they were left with thousands of trees...
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