Younger trees, old tree

Today I’m taking you (again) to Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal. We’ll walk up the High Ride, through glades of trees, in relatively young maturity …

… before descending to saunter through the parkland of Studley Royal. I’ve got a lot of ancient trees to show you next week, but today I’ll show you just one. A cherry tree, or what’s left of it. It’s about 400 years old, which is unfathomably old for a fruit tree. I must say it looks its age. But isn’t it remarkable?

A newer branch has somehow grown from that ancient trunk.

For Becky’s Walking Squares, and Bren’s Midweek Monochrome.

Author: margaret21

I'm retired and living in North Yorkshire, where I walk as often as I can, write, volunteer, and travel as often as I can.

56 thoughts on “Younger trees, old tree”

    1. No Jo, don’t panic. I’m not squaring again this week. In fact I’m contemplating a blogging holiday. Even reading posts is taking up way too much time, interesting as this always is.

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  4. Oh Margaret these are beautiful.. That cherry tree is amazing.. its got attitude and thinks to itself..’There is life in this old tree yet!’ 😂

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    1. And we may never acquire such status. I heard last week that the oldest known tree in the UK, a yew in Scotland, is thought to be some 6000 years old. My mind can’t really take that in.

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  8. These are much spookier in b&w. The last shot is my favourite. I’m fascinated by old trees too and tried to look up the one you mentioned. Is it the Fortingall Yew, do you remember? I found the Crowhurst Yew in the same search, which has a door in it.

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    1. We weren’t told the name of the yew. But I’m sure you’re right. And there’s a tree in the Dales with a door in it, and its hollow form has made it into a cosy space for tinies.

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  9. Fantastic knobbly trunk. Is that age for a cherry a record breaker? Reading the comment thread I was interested to see you were thinking about reducing or taking a blogging break. I have been toying with the idea of only posting once a month. It’s been a combination of events, but also I am finding the general, wider mood is not helpful either.

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    1. I think that cherry is something of a record breaker. As to blogging – I find the blogging community a supportive one, but those who are interested in me interest me too, and there aren’t the hours in the day.

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  17. Dear Margaret
    We love old trees but didn’t know that fruit trees can survive that many years. Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.
    All the best
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  18. So so neat, thanks for sharing. I often stop and marvel at old trees on my walks, even in our city (a Western suburb of Chicago), we have some interesting specimens. Actually in my vert street

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