{"id":5499,"date":"2021-03-13T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2021-03-13T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T19:35:06","slug":"speaker-meeting-8th-march-2021-tyntesfield-trees-chris-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/2021\/03\/13\/speaker-meeting-8th-march-2021-tyntesfield-trees-chris-watts\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker meeting 8th March 2021:\u00a0 Tyntesfield Trees \u2013 Chris Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5503\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-2-300x227.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-2-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-2.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Chris started by telling us a bit about the history of the Tyntesfield Estate.\u00a0 The house was built for William Gibbs and completed in 1884.\u00a0 The estate was purchased by the National Trust in 2002.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are 37 labels from the original trees planted in the late 1800s.\u00a0 There is a huge selection of trees with beautiful foliage and flowers and look stunning when they are at their best.\u00a0 Some parts of the estate are the same as they were originally including some of the tree walks.\u00a0 \u00a0A few of the trees in the laurel walk have been replaced by taking cuttings from the original trees.\u00a0 The holly walk is 140 years old and some of the hollies have also been replaced.<\/p>\n<p>He told us about ancient, veteran and champion trees.\u00a0 They have an oak which is an ancient tree. <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5504\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-3-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-3-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-3.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Ancient trees are very old one but vary in age depending on the species. However, all ancient trees are also veterans.\u00a0 Veteran trees can be any age, but show ancient characteristics. An example of a veteran tree is a beautiful sweet chestnut over 200 years old. \u00a0There are also champion trees which are the largest of their species.\u00a0 The tallest tree on the estate is from the United States of America is 37 \u00bd meters tall.\u00a0 Some of the trees have been lost due to disease or damaged by animals and in 2018 due to the dry weather a number of trees were lost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5502\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-1-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-1-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/03\/Tyntesfield-1.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We were shown the orangery in 1901 and then how very different it looks today.\u00a0 Between 2015 and 2019 they planted a new orchard with a huge variety of trees.\u00a0 We all enjoyed Chris\u2019s talk and we were tempted by the Tyntesfied Tree Guide that can be purchased and used to identify trees on the estate.\u00a0 However, we were even more tempted by the offer of a guided walk when we can once again meet in groups after the corona virus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris started by telling us a bit about the history of the Tyntesfield Estate.\u00a0 The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":5504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supper-meetings-read-what-our-speakers-have-to-say"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Speaker meeting 8th March 2021:\u00a0 Tyntesfield Trees \u2013 Chris Watts | News | Blog | Events | SI Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bristol : Blog &amp; News : Speaker meeting 8th March 2021:\u00a0 Tyntesfield Trees \u2013 Chris Watts : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bristol . 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