Sad about this tree.
Put a video up last night of this tree next to Belvoir primary school South Belfast about all the bark being pulled off it, the bark was all lying in bits around the tree.
I wanted to see if anyone could help it.
Lots of tree specialists got in touch to say there is no real hope for the tree surviving. I thought this myself, I've seen trees ring barked as its called many times and the tree slowly dies.
What I think happened here is the council had pruned the lower brances of this tree off which was just recently as I seen them do it and it's left bits of bark hanging and kids have just peeled it off maybe not thinking of the consequences.
If an inch thick of bark is peeled in a ring around the tree the tree will die. All the vital nutrients are carried up the bark of the tree.
This was a class looking hornbeam tree possibly 30-40 years old. Sad.....
Lets all phantom plant a tree to make up for this!
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