Pete's London Plane Tree - a journey begins.
My cousin works for a Local Government Authority in the western suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. For risk management reasons, this tree was required to be removed from a well established public garden. Peter contacted me and asked if I was interested. He sent me a picture of the tree, and I said I would like the bottom section of the tree, where the pith would more likely be in the centre of the log. The large lower branches meant the best timber would be below this in the lower trunk. I was unable to be there on the day the Arborists removed the tree, but I turned up the following day with the aim of splitting the log section down into quarters with my wedges in order to make the log more manageable for me to remove it from the site. The log section awaiting me, and my box of wedges next to it. the rest of the huge tree had been chipped and totally removed from the site. London Plane, Plantanus x acerifolia, is understood to be a hybrid between the ...