19/05/2023
I planted this Scots pine about 10 yrs ago in front of the bread school, and it is growing into such a beautiful tree.
I especially like it at this time of when it is in bloom. If you swipe you can see one of the very many male flowers on it. Brush of it's branches and a cloud of pollen fills the air.
It struggled for the first couple of years at it was planted into a hole filled with good topsoil and compost, but very poor soil beyond that.
Once it established itself though, it has really begun to bloom and grow.
I've been trying to look up , but I cannot find when the tree is meant to turn into it's mature stage of growth.
With a lifespan up to 700yrs I expect it could be a while.
I always loved the shape of them as I was growing up around North Dublin.
Their wide broad branches shading needle strewn soil. Large fist sized cones.
Hopefully I'll still be around to enjoy it then.
But just as the people who planted the trees I enjoyed when I was young, were probably long dead. I'll enjoy it's youthful stage now, so others may rest and shelter beneath its elderly boughs in years to come.