[Closed] Graffitti Trees..

I prefer the un-scrawled trees. Thats a lovely shape of tree though, shame its on its last legs.

Shame.
Imagine what that tree has lived though...
Wars, recessions, frigid winters, baking summers.
Shame.

Ironic though that the graffiti could well be the thing that killed it, damage to the surface layer of the bark (and sometimes deeper) introduces a direct open wound through the trees protective systems. They can cope with a little abuse, but they really are sensitive to scrawled all over repeatedly. Things like fungus up the branches (I think I see some in the bottom pic) serves to show that the tree defenses have been beaten and the fungus is often spread throughout the tree, slowly killing it off by reducing nutrient flow both to the roots and to the limbs.

On the South Bank outside the RFH, all the plane trees have had their trunks wrapped in red and white polka-dot fabric by a Japanese gentleman as part of an exhibition at the Hayward.

That must look pretty funky BD? Pictures?

This old tree seems generally well, not masses of fungi, but some, and it has pools of water where the limbs branch out from the main trunk, so it will be rooting away at these points and weakening it, on other side from the pic, it's lost a substantial limb, unsure if it snapped during the heavy snow in the winter, but as it's a well know tree i suspect the rangers made it safe as a H&S point, it's not un balanced though so should be good for many more years, i'm to blame for one of the etchings but it's small subtle and of sentimental meaning.

Ten years this november 🙁