We moved it to that place in March 2005 and when I saw the trees like that I told SWMBO that we were not going to get much shade from them that year. How wrong was and when I had to prune them in the autumn I was cutting of 1" plus branches about 10 foot long!
Wonderful trees and tough as old boots.
The biggest shame about that type of tree is that there were 40,000 of them lining the banks of the Canal du Midi, from Toulouse to Séte on the Mediterranean coast. Planted over 150 years ago. A few years back a team of tree surgeons (?) came down from north France to do some pruning of those lovely trees and bought a nasty fungal infection with them. It now looks to be that those 40,000 beautiful trees are going to have to be felled! A load of them were felled before we left and great stretches of the canal were left bare.
This is a small example in the town of Trebes, just east of Carcassonne, Aude.
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