Big trees, amazing creatures with the best eyes

Reaching Great Heights on Manna Gums

11/3/2021

We are surrounded by massive and unique Eucalypts species like that here in Australia. Some people love them, others don’t bother, and some others hate them. Without knowing their history correctly, it is easy to ignore their essential reputation. Just because these trees are icons of the Australian flora, great animal hotels, fire predominant and ancient environmental organisms, it isn’t hard to imagine their crucial role in this climate change era. Read More

Giant By the Pool

7/25/2021

It creates the dream landscape for skillful climbers willing to try something new with a diverse canopy and torturous limb growth. Most Eucalypts are flexible and robust at the junction but brittle if bends like a fishing rod. Read More

Big Daddy at the Entrance

2/5/2021

With a branch structure not like any other, tie-in point options are limitless. Also overwhelming to the eye when arriving at the top. You feel like amongst many different trees right next to each other. Movement with one tie-in point is limited. Redirects are a requirement to move through the crown. Efficiency comes down to the ones keen to experiment. What a climb! Read More

Ancient Gum on Glynburn

7/24/2020

If you live in Adelaide, this is a tree to see. Among million-dollar houses, old homesteads and farms once subdivided, this was a notorious logging site. Before the settlers, this tree was standing here watching over a vast open forest that occupied the Adelaide grounds within the shore and the hills. Almost located at the foothills, this river Redgum has amazing stories to tell.
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First creek and The red gum

6/5/2020

Interesting figure settled in a notorious contrast in plain South Australia within history and deforestation holding hands. From Hutchinson Park, you can reach First Creek that once was a flowing rich river that indigenous people would not starve nor lack of fishing among large trunks of river red gum. Back in time, this tree was used for canoes, bowls, shields, and other utensils. Its redness wood contains very high levels of chemicals such as polyphenols... Read More

Source: T. Miranda 2020

Sugar in The Square

5/8/2020

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Stampede by its trunk size and skyrise heights, it confronts our fears in a way any arborist, independent of their experience, still shakes when reaching the top. It grows tall with long limbs shedding to show smooth trunk and winding branch shape. This species E. cladocalyx is amazing, long used its wood strength to build houses and/or heavy structures. Its botanical name comes from the Greek "clado" (branch) and "calyx" is the basal part of a bud... Read more

Source: T. Miranda 2020

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