Death of a Giant

[Palustris]

The extraction of water has lowered the water table so much that the trees here can no longer root down that far. Many of them are slowly dying of thirst.

[Palustris]

[DolphinGarden]

Oh dear, that's a terrible pity...

[Delilah]

very sad but quite sculptural

[busy_lizzie]

That is a tragedy Eric.  British trees are so beautiful and are so much part of the history of our country.  How can people get licences to extract water if this is to be the result.  It doesn't make any sense.

It seems a terrible irony that in a lot of places there are terrible floods now.  There was a programme on our local TV recently about the floods in Cumbria and how people are still suffering and quite likely to suffer in the future. busy_lizzie

[Tulipa]

That's really sad to see a tree dying.  I love trees.

[GREENWIZARD]

very sad indeed

[Plocket]

Your beautiful and moving photograph has reminded me of a huge elm tree we had years ago at the end of our garden. Of course it caught the dreaded disease and had to be cut down. It was amazing to watch the men work, but the noise the poor tree made when they finally cut the trunk at the base was terrible. It sounded as though the tree were crying out in pain.