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| Dead apricot tree. © EugeneBrennan |
So
I tied a rope around a limb of this apricot tree that I grew from a
stone around 2003, because it was growing across the driveway and the
rope was to pull it inwards. Nothing wrong with that and usually you
thread the rope through something soft like a scrap of garden hose so it
doesn't damage the bark. Then over time, the tension normally goes out
of the limb and it stays in place and the rope can be removed. However I
left the rope in place, thinking it would be swallowed by the bark,
just like what sometimes happens to park benches and the vascular
channels in the bark would merge and create a bypass for sap. But
apparently not. What happens is that a tree actually gets strangled as
the trunk expands and flow of sap and nutrients can't get past the
bottleneck. So I queried it on a Facebook gardening group and was
accused of murder and was lucky to escape without being virtually
lynched.
I think the tree looks nice though even though it's dead.
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| © Eugene Brennan |