Fetlar's Palm Tree Paradise
Posted: Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
Our palm tree is growing well and is well tended by our P7 every day. We hope to have a whole grove of them before he goes to the secondary.
Comments
Ha! We're not as daft as we may seem. You can't fool us with trick photography. That "palm tree" looks more like an opening bud (horse chestnut?) to me. Nice try...
Jill from EK
well i don't know if its a horse chestnut but it sure aint a palm tree!(sorry to disapoint you kids)
carol from over here
Ladies, ladies, clearly this is a palm tree of the most esoteric variety - beechy, I'd say. Congratulations Fetlar for another successful Scottish first in genetic cross-dressing!
Barney from Swithiod spluttering
I think it is an oak, that does not matter. The tree will grow to 60 foot in width and will rip the buildings foundations appart(rootwise) in its planted postion.The rule is the final height plus half is the planting distance, so if it is blown down by a storm it does not do any structural damage.Have a good day kids. Regards.
roy from Sofala.Oz
no roy,sorry but its not an oak-i have several oak trees in garden and they don't have leaves like that
carol from over here
Thanks Roy. Its still in a bucket. We're waiting for it to root. No tree grows to 60 foot here.
FetlarSchool from Fetlar
No way it's an oak. It's a horse chestnut or maybe a beech, depending on the angle of the photo! Best of luck to it in Shetland, anyway.
Jill from EK
I think its an Ent
Muness from Fetlar
Trees here grow at a roughly 45 degree angle, and never higher than 20, or maybe 30 feet, always bald at the side of the prevailing wind. And thats only the ones in shelter. Anything exposed maybe manages 6 feet if it lives at all.
Ruthodanort from Unst
A rather decent comment of mine related to this posting never saw the light of day. Having had the time to stew it over, I have come to the judicious conclusion that someone planted the wrong nut in the bucket.
mjc from NM,USA
This is the exception that proves the rule, Ruthie babe! This 'ere palmy-beachy 'orse chestnut with a heart of oak will survive long after all Fetlar friends and pupils have forgotten and gone on to other things. Last week in Sweden we learnt that we are host to the OLDEST (KNOWN) TREE IN THE WORLD! This is a common or garden fir tree - or maybe pine tree, can't remember - the bit above the ground is quite young but the root system is ---- wait for it, sit down and take a stiff tot ebfore reading further --- unbelievable 10,000 years old! True or false? In other circumsatnces I might bluff but on Feltar Shool blog NEVER. It is true! Science is better than fiction, ent it?
Barney from Swithiod serving science
I checked the web. The oldest tree is "only" 8000 years old. Apologies, Fetlar lads and lasses! It has a couple of pals at 6000 and 5000 years old. And it is a fir tree, not a pine tree.
Barney from Swithiod correction(s)
I don't know about yours, Barney from Swithiod House of Correction, my genealogical tree goes far beyond 8,000 years. Out of Africa and all that.
mjc from NM,USA
But mjc, you aren't a TREE (I think).
Barney from Swithiod not fazed
Of course I am not a tree, Barney from Swithiod quite dazed, knock on teak. I mentioned my genealogical tree just as you would mention your banana tree or your old coconut tree. # How is your Swedish by the way? I tried to learn Swedish once (Radio Sweden, short wave, with all the non linguistic sound effects) when once in my youth I lived in the tropics, but I never got beyond the work flicka (blame it on atmospheric turbulence). My latin is somewhat better (not saying much). Do they teach latin in Fetlar? No? Why not?! Uncle Barney thinks the world of latin, particularly the conjugation of amare.
mjc from NM,USA
mjc, you are a renaissance man.Swedish in the tropics! What an insane idea!! My Swedish is (modesty, modesty) pretty damn good after 40 years give and take 5 in Norway. I also know well why you didn't get past "flicka" - the mind does not boggle, all is perfectly plain, not to say slightly vulgar. Let's get back to the Fetlar balm tree......
Barney from Swithiod amo, amas, amat
Wasn't Flicka a horse???
Flying Cat from feeling friendly
Poor me, my memory tells me that flicka is Swedish for girl. Heaven knows what Barney is tooting about.
mjc from NM,USA
Flicka may be a horse in your world, EffCee, but mjc knows that a flicka is a girl .. and he never got past that fountain of knowedge.
Barney from Swithiod neigh, neigh!
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